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Eitan Adler
07457e2d6b Answer the question "how do I go back from pkgng?" 
This is the first mention of pkgng in the FAQ

Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-11-09 18:53:24 +00:00
Eitan Adler
548d3ec0b4 make world no longer functions exactly as described and its use is 
generally discouraged except with DESTDIR defined.

Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-11-09 18:53:21 +00:00
Eitan Adler
315f0eda09 Prefer a more obvious syntax but add a note explaining why one 
may prefer the empty() syntax.

PR:		docs/172662
Submitted by:	crees
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-11-06 13:11:15 +00:00
Eitan Adler
c6140e03f2 Update information about using VirtualBox. 
atapicam is no longer required and some devices need passthrough.

PR:		docs/173255
Submitted by:	Yuri <yuri@tsoft.com>
Approved by:	jkois (mentor)
 2012-11-05 13:16:50 +00:00
Eitan Adler
94bd4edef9 Prefer the use of pgrep instead of ps | grep for exactly the reason 
specified in the handbook: ps is "racy".

Approved by:	jkois
 2012-11-05 13:16:45 +00:00
Eitan Adler
9a63ad0439 Convert "Intel" -> &intel; entity. 
Approved by:	jkois (mentor)
 2012-11-04 17:44:11 +00:00
Eitan Adler
7edde089f3 ACPI is the modern version. Also, add <acronym> tags 
when required.  Remove reference to Linux when not required.

Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-11-04 17:44:09 +00:00
Eitan Adler
bc142c0151 Remove redundant extra extranious words 
Approved by:	jkois (mentor)
 2012-11-04 17:44:01 +00:00
Warren Block
2b1a5e852d Add a missing "the". 2012-11-03 19:48:27 +00:00
Warren Block
e6fc6dd378 Add missing space to separate word from filename. 2012-11-02 14:43:35 +00:00
Sergey Kandaurov
f6aa7f1e4c Update links to the current incarnation of the Portscout service. 
Submitted by:	Ilya A. Arkhipov <ruM1cRO yandex ru>
 2012-11-02 13:55:49 +00:00
Warren Block
0ea049f633 Whitespace-only fixes. Translators, please ignore. 2012-11-02 04:22:25 +00:00
Warren Block
dc068cb25d Rework the gmirror section to create mirrors properly. The second half 
of this new section was written by Hiroki Sato.
 2012-11-02 04:19:20 +00:00
Warren Block
0e8f52f505 Whitespace-only fixes. Translators, please ignore. 2012-11-02 04:13:41 +00:00
Eitan Adler
d4bc069675 Remove a source of misinformation: the names of specific 
members holding hats are documented in so many places
that some don't get updated when things change.

Discussed with:	peterj
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-11-01 19:08:12 +00:00
Warren Block
7f4246e1c9 Whitespace-only fixes. Translators, please ignore. 2012-11-01 17:02:59 +00:00
Warren Block
fb4d8910cc Whitespace-only fixes. Translators, please ignore. 2012-11-01 17:00:30 +00:00
Warren Block
5146f0f247 Clarify that /etc/crontab is the system crontab. 
Submitted by:	Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
 2012-11-01 16:29:14 +00:00
Eitan Adler
20181e02ab People havn't cared about floppies in ages so convert to using 
da0 instead of fd0

Worse though is the continued reference to block devices
which havn't existed since the 3.x days.

Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-11-01 03:53:41 +00:00
Eitan Adler
b3d3ee17d4 Make the answer to the question "can I install FreeBSD and windows" make 
sense.

Reviewed by:	gjb
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-10-31 21:24:52 +00:00
Eitan Adler
76fc639af5 Improve the answer relating to corrupted downloads. 
Reviewed by:	gjb
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-10-31 21:24:50 +00:00
Eitan Adler
24394ad171 Rewrite the answer to "which file should I download" - the only versions 
still talks about floppies as if they matter.

Reviewed by:	gjb
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-10-31 21:24:47 +00:00
Eitan Adler
db25c23326 Add a question explaining which platform one should 
download per architecture.

Reviewed by:	gjb
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-10-31 21:24:44 +00:00
Eitan Adler
18ee1311e2 Explain to users a bit about bsdconfig 
Reviewed by:	dteske
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-10-31 21:24:41 +00:00
Eitan Adler
2cb27d92de The patch mentioned no longer applies. 
Remove references to non-supported versions of &os;
Assume the FAQ is correct w.r.t. 512 pseuoterminals.

Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-10-31 21:24:36 +00:00
Warren Block
1b2789f56a Whitespace-only fixes. Translators, please ignore. 2012-10-31 03:15:22 +00:00
Warren Block
c7713924c3 Whitespace-only indentation fix. Translators, please ignore. 2012-10-31 02:42:31 +00:00
Warren Block
ddb9c02262 Remove redundant words, fix title capitalization. 2012-10-31 02:41:03 +00:00
Warren Block
6c132b64de Whitespace-only fixes. Translators, please ignore. 2012-10-31 02:19:12 +00:00
Warren Block
28eba234d5 Whitespace-only fixes. Translators, please ignore. 2012-10-31 02:17:26 +00:00
Eitan Adler
645897d766 These specific BIOS manufacturers are not known to have these problems 
recently; also 53C8xx is hardly popular anymore.

Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-10-30 15:09:34 +00:00
Eitan Adler
12dafcc86b There are no more 3com references in the FAQ 
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-10-30 15:09:31 +00:00
Eitan Adler
071684c0f8 3COM 3C509 is a 10Mbps ancient network cord. Almost no one 
uses it anymore.

Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-10-30 15:09:28 +00:00
Eitan Adler
a16fb2719a Fix style problems pointed out by igor w.r.t. "e.g." or "i.e.". 
No checking for the remainder of the content was done.

Translators may ignore.

Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-10-30 15:09:25 +00:00
Eitan Adler
daeb52ed12 Oracle is no longer producing a version of OO.o 
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-10-30 14:30:49 +00:00
Eitan Adler
dbbb4ec933 Users should always be using a complete copy of the ports tree. 
csup is leaving us shortly so don't bother mentioning it.

Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-10-30 14:30:46 +00:00
Eitan Adler
b906641de3 These questions relate more to "how do I use my device" and less with 
a specific problem or concern that might be answered in an FAQ.
In addition having all the anwers look identical is bad form.

Reviewed by:	gavin
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-10-30 14:30:44 +00:00
Eitan Adler
f712fe0589 This question is years old, doesn't affect people anymore, and 
just takes up space.

Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-10-30 14:30:41 +00:00
Eitan Adler
2704c53fbc Remove FAQ entries about micron hardware. These entries 
are at least 12 years old and probably don't matter anymore.

Discussed with:	scottl
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-10-30 14:30:38 +00:00
Eitan Adler
e1928b736c NTFS support was recently deorbited from HEAD. In any case 
the old support was buggy and less fully featured than the FUSE
port so remove reference to it.

Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-10-30 14:15:37 +00:00
Eitan Adler
88ba468ed9 Don't tell people to use some indirect method when a direct method 
is available in order to determine which scheduler they are using.

Reviewed by:	mjg
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-10-30 12:01:18 +00:00
Eitan Adler
f3495d4402 Remove duplicated duplicated words. 
No correctness checking was done of the surrounding content.

Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-10-30 12:01:15 +00:00
Eitan Adler
e4c89aa6db Ancient hardware is ancient 
Submitted by:	mjg
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-10-30 12:01:12 +00:00
Warren Block
1ba77e1ffe Whitespace-only fixes. Translators, please ignore. 2012-10-30 03:15:06 +00:00
Warren Block
8f65cc762e Remove some redundant words that are handled by markup. 2012-10-30 03:11:42 +00:00
Eitan Adler
69d37341d7 BIOS detecting an absurdly low amount of memory is no longer a concern. 
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-10-29 04:28:28 +00:00
Warren Block
43bdbf4eca Whitespace-only fixes. Translators, please ignore. 2012-10-29 00:50:20 +00:00
Warren Block
d6e66803ae Fix permission name markup in title. 2012-10-28 22:47:52 +00:00
Glen Barber
ad1fb93d2c Add Makefile for jails chapter. 
PR:		173155
Submitted by:	rene
 2012-10-28 22:23:29 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
f1098f7e71 OpenOffice.org is now Apache OpenOffice, so let's update a bit 
the related parts of this chapter.
 2012-10-28 19:36:15 +00:00