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Author SHA1 Message Date
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
7b88da32e8 SGML is wrong and XML is scary so use the word "Docbook"
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
2012-10-31 21:24:39 +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
Eitan Adler
36a62c0fe5 Bring the RC article up to date.
PR:		docs/172692
Submitted by:	crees
Reviewed by:	Michael Telahun Makonnen <mmakonnen@gmail.com>
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
2012-10-31 21:24:26 +00:00
Rene Ladan
ceba215583 MFen the Dutch Handbook:
- colophon 39631 -> 39871 (SRCID bump only)
- config 39631 -> 39873 (and remove an ancient sentence)
- desktop 39828 -> 39874 (SRCID bump only)
2012-10-31 12:55:35 +00:00
Rene Ladan
8e6cf12b5c MFen 39846 -> 39867 2012-10-31 12:51:56 +00:00
Taras Korenko
e09cb36980 + include handbook/bsdinstall translation into the build process 2012-10-31 09:34:20 +00:00
Taras Korenko
3915ad140d + add russian translation of handbook/bsdinstall (orig.rev.: r39813) 2012-10-31 09:28:40 +00:00
Fukang Chen
a07cea97bc MFen: r36253 -> r38244
Merging work done by:  delphij
Obtained from:         The FreeBSD Simplified Chinese Project
2012-10-31 08:53:02 +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
Chris Rees
1aa7b74f6e Add Pierre David and Jean Benoit for their fine work on the Netmagis ports
PR:		ports/169509
2012-10-30 20:53:16 +00:00
Glen Barber
acc8bfeb17 Add entry for nwhitehorn in re-builders@. 2012-10-30 20:34:05 +00:00
Thomas Abthorpe
b14a03f9e3 - tabthorpe replaces wilko as core@ rep on donations
Approved by:	gjb
2012-10-30 20:22:29 +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
Glen Barber
035dce8482 Fix various make(1) targets in UTF-8 locale environment.
Reviewed by:	pluknet
2012-10-30 13:33:23 +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
Rene Ladan
0e384fff4f MFen 39775 -> 39846 2012-10-30 08:41:22 +00:00
Rene Ladan
894d3c4ec7 MFen 39631 -> 39845 (plus spelling fix) 2012-10-30 08:40:06 +00:00
Glen Barber
4de64f86f9 Update re@ and re-builders@ entities in developers.xml.
Submitted by:	ryusuke
2012-10-30 03:46:29 +00:00
Glen Barber
b3df6c4acf Remove administration.sgml, incorrectly copied back into the repo with
r39796.

Submitted by:	ryusuke
2012-10-30 03:43:48 +00:00
Glen Barber
6059052018 Apply changes from r39796 to correct file.
Submitted by:	ryusuke
2012-10-30 03:43:00 +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
Glen Barber
94c98c93a4 Update developers@ team:
- Thanks wilko@ for your service.
- Welcome back, tabthorpe@.
2012-10-30 02:56:37 +00:00
Glen Barber
98330a8a19 Remove the following empty directories, with the corresponding
last-committed date.

articles/java-tomcat		    2006-02-20
articles/programming-tools	    2004-04-04
articles/smp			    2003-08-06
books/developers-handbook/boot	    2003-08-06
books/developers-handbook/dma	    2008-08-09
books/developers-handbook/driverbasics	2003-08-06
books/developers-handbook/isa	    2003-08-06
books/developers-handbook/jail	    2003-08-06
books/developers-handbook/kobj	    2003-08-06
books/developers-handbook/locking   2003-08-06
books/developers-handbook/mac	    2003-08-06
books/developers-handbook/newbus    2003-08-06
books/developers-handbook/pccard    2003-08-06
books/developers-handbook/pci	    2003-08-06
books/developers-handbook/scsi	    2003-08-06
books/developers-handbook/sound	    2003-08-06
books/developers-handbook/sysinit   2003-08-06
books/developers-handbook/usb	    2003-08-06
books/developers-handbook/vm	    2003-08-06
books/ppp-primer		    2002-12-01
htdocs/alpha			    2012-05-16
htdocs/conspectus/advocacy/2000	    2012-05-16
htdocs/conspectus/advocacy/2000/11  2012-05-16
htdocs/conspectus/stable/2000	    2012-05-16
htdocs/conspectus/stable/2000/05    2012-05-16
htdocs/conspectus/stable/2000/06    2012-05-16
htdocs/gallery			    2012-05-16
htdocs/gnome/images/team	    2012-05-16
htdocs/gnome/patches		    2012-05-16
htdocs/platforms/amd64		    2012-05-16
htdocs/projects/dingo		    2012-05-16
htdocs/projects/nanobsd		    2012-05-16
htdocs/releases/2.0.5A		    2012-05-16
htdocs/releases/2.0A		    2012-05-16
htdocs/releases/4.6.1R		    2012-05-16
share/images			    2003-04-11
share/images/callouts		    2003-04-11
2012-10-29 23:42:23 +00:00
Rene Ladan
89429843c6 MFen the Dutch Handbook:
- advanced-networking 39631 -> 39824
- audit 39631 -> 39825 (SRCID bump only)
- basics 39631 -> 39831
- desktop 39631 -> 39828
2012-10-29 19:10:54 +00:00
Rene Ladan
2e7c3ebc54 MFen 39631 -> 39733 2012-10-29 18:02:51 +00:00
Rene Ladan
0bffc36e13 MFen 39631 -> 39752 (and a spelling fix) 2012-10-29 17:48:49 +00:00
Rene Ladan
b66294e4eb MFen 39544 -> 39727
Add myself as a translator, I have been updating the chapter for some time now.
2012-10-29 17:13:12 +00:00
Ryusuke SUZUKI
6e75e63e75 - Merge the following from the English version:
r39265 -> r39828	head/ja_JP.eucJP/books/handbook/desktop/chapter.xml
2012-10-29 12:44:39 +00:00