Eitan Adler
46a47f4b25
Reorganize a bit: combine "General" and "Memory" in the hardware
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section. There is currently only one question in 'General' and two in
'memory'
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2013-01-13 05:43:14 +00:00
Eitan Adler
e50028b83d
It seems unlikely anyone would have asked "Where can I get CDE for
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FreeBSD?" in years.
Discussed with: gonzo
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2013-01-13 05:41:30 +00:00
Eitan Adler
8e3fb6ce36
Remove Motif FAQ - it isn't up to date and no one has asked about it in
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years. Perhaps everyone reads the FAQ.
Noted by: cpet
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2013-01-13 05:39:58 +00:00
Eitan Adler
7312482fa9
A kernel compile is not needed to change console video modes.
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Reported by: Wxcafe (via twitter)
Discussed with: koobs
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2013-01-13 05:35:23 +00:00
Glen Barber
2d8e80aaa6
Bump copyright year missed in r40561.
2013-01-13 00:17:41 +00:00
Benedict Reuschling
c28ffd3535
Fix two typos in the same comment.
2013-01-12 16:27:30 +00:00
Brooks Davis
d4d99ae662
Document __FreeBSD_version 1000025 and 1000026.
2013-01-11 21:51:09 +00:00
Benedict Reuschling
fe9d8bd98a
Whitespace fixes to the entire X11 chapter, improving non-visible
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indentation of this file. Only minor fixes by me, the original
patch was
Submitted by: Dru Lavigne
2013-01-11 17:10:03 +00:00
Isabell Long
1a7d30e329
Now that 9.1 is out, it's time to rearrange the installation chapters of
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the Handbook so that the most recent instructions come first.
Approved by: gabor (mentor)
2013-01-09 20:44:50 +00:00
Benedict Reuschling
078a955d81
Add a verb to a title to indicate what users should do with /usr/ports/UPDATING.
2013-01-09 09:58:20 +00:00
Glen Barber
6b4f60d71c
Update writing style examples, replacing cvsup with svn.
2013-01-05 01:19:09 +00:00
Glen Barber
f01a8af5d3
Remove the 'CVSup Method' of updating the Ports Collection.
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Update two package names from cvsup to colordiff.
While here, change 'pkg remove' command to 'pkg delete' for consistency
with the manual, although 'pkg remove' works as well.
2013-01-05 01:19:06 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
49bfd63e02
Fix a broken link.
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PR: docs/174912
Submitted by: Diane Bruce <db@db.net>
2013-01-03 09:34:50 +00:00
Isabell Long
a1470713c6
Add a new section containing minimal information about the FreeBSD live CD
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to the bsdinstall chapter of the Handbook. Within it, document the required
login details [1].
PR: docs/172784 [1]
Approved by: gabor (mentor)
2012-12-31 19:07:25 +00:00
Isabell Long
65cf66cbaf
- The nsupdate(8) man page no longer exists: nsupdate(1) replaces it. Change
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the reference in the "network servers" Handbook chapter. [1]
- Add nsupdate(1) to the man page references file, without removing the old
one so that translations don't break.
PR: docs/174791 [1]
Approved by: gabor (mentor)
2012-12-31 18:05:02 +00:00
Isabell Long
06062c3458
Add a missing blank space in the porter's handbook: "usedin" -> "used in".
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PR: docs/174811
Submitted by: Po-Chien Lin <linpc@cs.nctu.edu.tw>
Approved by: gabor (mentor)
2012-12-31 17:57:48 +00:00
Isabell Long
9105af297b
The Ports tree has now migrated to Subversion, so change the wording of
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the migration warning text in the Handbook chapter.
Requested by: gavin
Approved by: gjb (mentor)
2012-12-29 23:00:05 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
e56c1c0710
Do not hardcode FreeBSD version, use entity instead.
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While I'm there, use an uppercase where needed for consistency.
2012-12-29 18:50:56 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
770b79cee8
Add a missing colon.
2012-12-29 17:31:37 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
468bd5b50a
Add some missing application tags.
2012-12-29 17:10:16 +00:00
Isabell Long
fbba287694
Clarify the format of the ports Makefile 'Created by:' line.
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PR: docs/174659
Submitted by: db
Approved by: gabor (mentor)
2012-12-28 22:13:17 +00:00
Glen Barber
c38d19d921
s/OpenOffice.org/Apache OpenOffice/
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Submitted by: ryusuke
2012-12-24 17:40:30 +00:00
Glen Barber
de81a6e4c2
Fix path to editors/openoffice-3.
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Submitted by: Nikolai Lifanov <lifanov%mail!lifanov!com> (private email)
2012-12-24 15:21:52 +00:00
Glen Barber
a29b88fcd5
Remove hard-coded 'base/' from SVN mirror URLs.
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Submitted by: peter
2012-12-20 23:26:48 +00:00
Glen Barber
a5db8029b9
Reindent after section change. Rewrap lines while here.
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Translators, please ignore.
2012-12-20 22:52:30 +00:00
Glen Barber
f58b8d6ac5
Split 'svn-mirrors' to its own sect1 so svn-mirrors.html has its own
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page.
Submitted by: peter, simon, brd
2012-12-20 22:47:47 +00:00
Eitan Adler
5922250c81
INN is ancient and crufty
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Noted by: scottl
Approved by: jkois (mentor)
2012-12-19 18:00:51 +00:00
Eitan Adler
ed0c4ed5ca
Promote PC-BSD in an appropriate spot.
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Approved by: jkois (mentor)
2012-12-18 14:11:29 +00:00
Eitan Adler
fa2ee1547e
The message "... can't assign resources" was removed some time ago.
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Noted by: imp
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-18 13:45:58 +00:00
Eitan Adler
bb1362cb3b
"likely isn't relevant since everybody uses PCI/PCIe serial cards"
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Noted by: imp
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-17 20:42:27 +00:00
Eitan Adler
bcd4aeb08d
pccard is gone so remove null-null
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Noted by: imp
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-17 20:42:25 +00:00
Eitan Adler
a711851f53
calcru-negative-runtime has been fixed for years
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Noted by: imp
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-17 20:42:20 +00:00
Eitan Adler
9e0c0aa08e
Modernize ppp-drop-heavy-load to conform with current defaults.
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Submitted by: Daniel O'Connor
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-17 16:01:53 +00:00
Eitan Adler
1d7fff8900
Remove xfreed86-root as the answer and question are very outdated.
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Noted by: Jakub Lach
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-17 16:01:51 +00:00
Glen Barber
77922566f7
Fix a missing space.
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Submitted by: eadler
2012-12-17 01:07:13 +00:00
Eitan Adler
63cfc33cbf
Finish pointing users that care about FreeBSD internals to the
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architecture handbook instead of a bibliography.
Reported by: bjk
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-16 22:56:43 +00:00
Eitan Adler
1a98cfb991
The string "/cmap busy/i" does not match any file in the repository.
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The error message is obsolete.
Noted by: imp
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-16 22:56:40 +00:00
Eitan Adler
6144db3a79
The npx module is no longer required to build or link.
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Noted by: Jakub Lach
Discussed with: db
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-16 22:56:38 +00:00
Eitan Adler
afd9569330
Modernize the 12.11 Threading Libraries section of the PH
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-16 22:56:36 +00:00
Eitan Adler
dbd558b55d
Add some explanation about ports-announce to the PH.
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-16 22:56:30 +00:00
Glen Barber
a3b0cd4bf8
Update FAQ entry for snapshot releases.
2012-12-15 20:49:42 +00:00
Glen Barber
9c3e7b8c8f
Add -snapshots@ list.
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PR: 174454
Submitted by: David Wolfskill
2012-12-15 15:50:36 +00:00
Eitan Adler
3ab6e86ad7
Minor wording fixes for the recently committed ZFS section.
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Reviewed by: bjk
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-13 13:07:12 +00:00
Eitan Adler
faf619619d
Point users that care about FreeBSD internals to the
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architecture handbook instead of a bibliography.
Approved by: bcr
2012-12-12 13:02:11 +00:00
Eitan Adler
37d152fa34
Do not wrap inside link: it causes an extra space where there shouldn't
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be one.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-12 13:02:09 +00:00
Eitan Adler
773a7e70e2
This entire section has not been needed since kbdmux was added
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to GENERIC.
Noted by: tj
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-12 13:02:06 +00:00
Eitan Adler
0641667ad1
"World Wide Web" sounds dated.
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-12 00:07:43 +00:00
Eitan Adler
40a425a167
Expand a bit upon the first FAQ question: "What is FreeBSD?"
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and don't redirect people to the home page for further information.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-12 00:07:40 +00:00
Eitan Adler
265d3188ef
HEAD is expected to be buildable and *work*; that said
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the users are expected to be able to deal with problems.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-12 00:07:38 +00:00
Eitan Adler
2698376c5b
Even though floppies are still supported for the last
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three remaining users of PC-98 it isn't common to get questions
about floppies. Instead answer
with the most likely cause of the problem.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-12 00:07:36 +00:00
Eitan Adler
dcd4ed1fe8
Almost no one is affected by this any more.
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-12 00:07:33 +00:00
Eitan Adler
7e67e479d6
Prefer service(1) over explicitly running /etc/rc.d/ scripts.
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-11 23:40:43 +00:00
Eitan Adler
e44bb944c4
"What other sources of information are there?" is answered by the entire
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next section: "Documentation and support"
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-11 23:40:41 +00:00
Eitan Adler
9c467128af
Don't make it seem like tcsh is in the ports collection
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Submitted by; bjk
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-11 23:40:38 +00:00
Eitan Adler
5bced79425
Special instructions for dealing with ancient mice are not needed
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anymore.
Noted by: imp
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-11 23:40:36 +00:00
Eitan Adler
dc24fbaca1
Add mention of specific hardware.
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Submitted by: imp
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-11 23:40:34 +00:00
Niclas Zeising
03a2e1a504
Fix spelling.
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Noticed by: wblock
Approved by: joel (mentor)
2012-12-10 17:00:54 +00:00
Eitan Adler
57c9aba307
Manually mucking with disk geometry is obsolete.
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-10 15:31:26 +00:00
Eitan Adler
448a5c5d4b
iomega devices are no longer mentioned in the FAQ.
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-10 15:31:24 +00:00
Eitan Adler
cc2f5e7d91
This answer is relatively clear and we have had multiple supported
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versions of FreeBSD for years.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-10 15:31:22 +00:00
Eitan Adler
9cdf5e14ac
Make some language in running-X nicer and more professional.
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-10 15:31:19 +00:00
Eitan Adler
2d477bd5cf
use two spaces at sentence start
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-10 15:31:17 +00:00
Eitan Adler
36c5f88505
Hot plugging of the usb system works
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Noted by: imp
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-10 15:31:15 +00:00
Eitan Adler
2795e1f908
3dfx went defunct in 2002
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Noted by: Chris Petrik <c.petrik.sosa@gmail.com>
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-10 15:31:12 +00:00
Eitan Adler
da01384b6a
EISA is dead.
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-10 15:31:10 +00:00
Eitan Adler
867b1b7653
Combine all the serial questions under one section in the FAQ.
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-10 15:31:08 +00:00
Eitan Adler
5125073eac
Discuss uart in a question about supporting serial cards.
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Noted by: Andrea Venturoli,
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-10 15:31:06 +00:00
Eitan Adler
b8c860e380
uha is no longer supported since CAM
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Noted by: imp
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-10 15:31:03 +00:00
Eitan Adler
824fa6f4f8
The PNP one can go... it was only marginally useful back in the day,
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and now it reads like a bad wikipedia article. - imp.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-10 15:31:01 +00:00
Eitan Adler
2acf5ee995
Add missing word "decide"
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Submitted by: bjk
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-10 15:30:59 +00:00
Eitan Adler
ae4dab9d48
SLIP was removed in 8.x. Given that 7.x will only be supported for
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another 2 months it doesn't make much sense to keep this information in
the FAQ.
Noted by: Joe Barbish
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-10 15:30:56 +00:00
Eitan Adler
94deaf1b01
It is hard to find IDE drives. ZIP and JAZ drives are gone from the
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world of useful technologies.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-10 15:30:54 +00:00
Eitan Adler
9b1f5e0b18
Fix minor branding detail in Apache OpenOffice - there is no space
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between "Open" and "Office" [1]
[1] https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/openoffice_org_is_now_apache
Submitted by: Jakub Lach <jakub_lach@mailplus.pl>
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-10 15:30:52 +00:00
Eitan Adler
0fff2af85f
pcvt(4) hasn't been around since 6.X according to man pages.
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Noted by: Derek Wood
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-10 15:30:49 +00:00
Eitan Adler
beca10feb1
Add an example of how to add a user to the 'wheel' group to the
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su-wheel-group FAQ.
PR: docs/174251
Submitted by: "Edward" <edward@rdtan.net>
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-10 15:30:47 +00:00
Niclas Zeising
ca7a7a2d70
Add documentation about the newly added OPTIONS knobs.
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Submitted by: bapt
Approved by: joel (mentor)
2012-12-10 11:23:32 +00:00
Guido Falsi
3530fbdbfb
Fix references to NOPORTDOCS, NOPORTDATA and NOPORTEXAMPLES to the
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new options framework DOCS, DATA, EXAMPLES options.
Noticed by: Alexey V. Panfilov <ports@subnets.ru>
Approved by: bapt, gjb
2012-12-08 22:47:14 +00:00
Eitan Adler
a1a6ff8430
Update and clarify text-mode-cut-paste: make it clear that this is
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copy-and-paste not cut-and-paste.
PR: docs/174134
Submitted by: Bas Smeelen <b.smeelen@ose.nl>
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-08 19:03:24 +00:00
Eitan Adler
cbf90ddecb
Wording tweaks to the pkg-descr section of the porter's handbook.
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Submitted by: wblock
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-08 13:32:22 +00:00
Eitan Adler
9e7d01acb0
Remove references to ancient technology: apm is dead.
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Discussed with: dwhite
Reviewed by: imp
Noted by: Jakub Lach
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-08 00:09:39 +00:00
Eitan Adler
13713cb3de
Combine question found-model and found-serial as the answer is the same.
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-07 13:01:14 +00:00
Eitan Adler
bda9ffe914
Clarify that "effective user id of 0" is an issue because it is SETUID.
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Also fix minor view-related style issue in the command. (translators
should _not_ ignore)
Noted by: Daniel O'Connor
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-07 13:01:12 +00:00
Eitan Adler
3d9d8c5956
Combine nearly identical questions custrel and custom-boot-floppy
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-07 13:01:09 +00:00
Eitan Adler
cb085941b5
Remove reference to newsgroup where we don't have a real presence
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anymore.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-07 13:01:07 +00:00
Eitan Adler
0a94ffd4ce
Remove ppp-loginok-thennothing:
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openmode is default, and ppp-same-magic explains how & why to disable.
Noted by: Daniel O'Connor
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-07 13:01:05 +00:00
Eitan Adler
9c96f32822
Remove reference to specific people in the FAQ. Generally official
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documentation should refer to teams or mailing lists to avoid putting
the burden on an individual.
Noted by: Daniel O'Connor
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-07 13:01:02 +00:00
Eitan Adler
07d66c239e
Remove obsolete question relating to the ATI Mach64 video card last
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released in 1994.
Noted by: Joe Barbish
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-07 13:01:00 +00:00
Eitan Adler
bab98b75e1
Rewrap minimal-sh
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Translators may ignore
PR: 174029
Submitted by: Derek Wood <ddwood@highdensity.org>
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-07 13:00:58 +00:00
Eitan Adler
fea381ec1f
Update question relating to why sh(1) is minimal.
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PR: 174029
Submitted by: Derek Wood <ddwood@highdensity.org>
Reviewed by: jilles
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-07 13:00:56 +00:00
Eitan Adler
88a8e194b8
Use the correct name for Apache Open Office
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Noted by: Jakub Lach
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-07 13:00:53 +00:00
Eitan Adler
771a828b4e
Reference the new version of the installer in the FAQ.
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-07 13:00:51 +00:00
Eitan Adler
c59b455750
Update and expand on the pkg-descr explanation in the porter's handbook.
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Submitted by: danfe
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-07 13:00:49 +00:00
Eitan Adler
b5d2b293a7
Discourage using sysinstall to install packages. It is going away
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and users should not become accustomed to it.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-07 13:00:44 +00:00
Eitan Adler
513ab80ef3
Avoid the use of "etc."
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Instead of listing all the formats point people to the FTP server
which has a README.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-07 13:00:42 +00:00
Eitan Adler
edcc146a13
Unwrap stragling </para>
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Reported by: igor
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-07 13:00:39 +00:00
Eitan Adler
61c2efd43c
Remove redundent marksup
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-07 13:00:37 +00:00
Eitan Adler
d16b16adeb
Don't use the word "Enable" in option descriptions: enabling is obvious
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from the option's existence.
Submitted by: ak
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-06 15:51:33 +00:00
Eitan Adler
1bd401e802
- Correct name of the "Getting FreeBSD" page.
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- Change "memstick.iso" text in the download media format to .img
PR: docs/174113
Submitted by: Derek Wood <ddwood@highdensity.org>
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-05 13:44:04 +00:00
Eitan Adler
e0c3e326fe
The corp-net-guide book is drastically out of date.
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Topics that would be covered in a modern version are already
explained in the normal handbook.
Discussed on: -doc
Approved by: bcr
2012-12-03 16:27:42 +00:00
Eitan Adler
0135063ccc
SUIDPERL is only available for perl 5.8 and perl5.10 so it clearly
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doesn't matter anymore.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-03 14:04:01 +00:00
Eitan Adler
5026d072b1
Correct dumb error on my part: -< and -> are two different sets of
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characters.
Submitted by: Chip Senkbeil <chip.senkbeil@gmail.com>
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-03 13:26:00 +00:00
Eitan Adler
eeacdc1c2d
Correct typo: s/s/d/ in ad1s1
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PR: docs/174061
Submitted by: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Approved by: ??? (mentor)
2012-12-02 23:49:26 +00:00
Gavin Atkinson
8b05c47c0b
Update the arch-handbook chapter on sound slightly to reflect PCI devices
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are more common than ISA devices, and that USB devices exist. Also,
change a line suggesting device driver writers email cg@ with a
recommendation they contact the FreeBSD-multimedia@ mailing list - Cameron
passed away several years ago.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-02 19:59:30 +00:00
Warren Block
b9e77047dd
Mention that inetd must be enabled to use swat.
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PR: docs/174045
Submitted by: Geoff Lockwood <dr.geoff.lockwood@ntlworld.com>
2012-12-02 18:31:41 +00:00
Eitan Adler
2c227d20e5
Remove newsgroups which have either not been posted too since 2003 or
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are filled only with spam.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-02 16:31:38 +00:00
Eitan Adler
7572e9e51c
su lacks a -K option and strings fails to find a reference to whatever
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warning this FAQ asked about.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-02 16:12:01 +00:00
Eitan Adler
728594c450
Update and clarify the FAQ on soft-updates.
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Noted by: -stable mailing list
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-01 17:00:17 +00:00
Eitan Adler
22db295d7a
Add a reference to locking.9 in the lock-order-reversal question
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Noted by: trasz
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-01 15:43:25 +00:00
Eitan Adler
c7bb52b8f1
Fix spelling
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Translators may ignore this change.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-12-01 15:43:22 +00:00
Glen Barber
6a50634af7
Fix section titles.[1]
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While here, fix missing opening/closing para tags.
Spotted by: eadler
2012-12-01 06:04:19 +00:00
Eitan Adler
ed2317b8b7
Opera no longer suffers from slowdown due to synchronous DNS queries on
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startup
Tested by: dinoex
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-30 00:20:40 +00:00
Eitan Adler
d459044c9e
Remove obsolete comment added by trhodes on 2005-04-22.
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-29 13:14:08 +00:00
Eitan Adler
0dd2935666
Fix typos
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Submitted by: bjk
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-29 13:13:59 +00:00
Glen Barber
567966abaf
- Remove duplicate entry for LinuxCenter. This exists in A.1.2
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and A.1.3.
- Now that A.1.3 now only contains one entry, remove it.
Submitted by: dru (via wiki)
2012-11-28 02:07:07 +00:00
Glen Barber
db428ae479
- Remove Ingram Micro, no longer has info on FreeBSD.
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- Remove defunct Kudzu, LLC.
Submitted by: dru (via wiki)
2012-11-28 01:59:33 +00:00
Glen Barber
b402808ad0
- Update mailing address for FreeBSD Mall, Inc.
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- Update mailing address and phone for Dr. Hinner EDV
- Remove JMC Software; page is listed as being in Ireland,
but site exists in Russia, and appears to be quite unmaintained.
- Update mailing address and phone for The Linux Emporium.
- Remove Linux+ and Linux System Labs, as they no longer sell
FreeBSD box sets.
Submitted by: dru (via wiki)
2012-11-28 00:52:45 +00:00
Eitan Adler
dd3f5884a9
Minor tweaks to the example code that I had forgotten to migrate
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from code to documentation.
Submitted by: gonzo
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-27 19:34:45 +00:00
Eitan Adler
2d9d4f6563
Use space, not tab, after "Created by:" per the official portmgr
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announcement.
Submitted by: ak
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-27 15:50:49 +00:00
Eitan Adler
008d649c14
Remove obsolete links which are now 404s (or worse)
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-27 15:30:43 +00:00
Eitan Adler
ac36ffe323
Modernize the example echo module and fix some style(9) issues in the
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code.
Reviewed by: alfred (code)
Reviewed by: gonzo (code)
Reviewed by: ehaupt (code)
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-27 15:30:40 +00:00
Eitan Adler
88152717d5
Eliminate use of deprecated flag to sysctl.
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Noted by: mjg
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-26 13:49:07 +00:00
Eitan Adler
8a28ed6f33
Add the new freebsd-tcltk mailing list
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PR: docs/173916
Submitted by: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-26 13:48:49 +00:00
Eitan Adler
44d90126ab
Recommit portions of r40117 which are still valid. Remove a ton of obsolete comments from the "developer's handbook".
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Approved by: bcr (original commit)
2012-11-26 03:00:20 +00:00
Eitan Adler
0f21e94e49
Revert r40117 which removed the last mention of the "old" way to build the kernel. This needs some reworking to explain why one would want to do this.
2012-11-26 02:58:34 +00:00
Glen Barber
fbf4614f3a
Merged ^/projects/pkgng revisions 39915 through 40152:
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Import pkgng documentation.
Reviewed by: bjk, wblock, matthew, rwatson,
eadler[1], bapt[1]
[1] Original version
2012-11-24 23:24:54 +00:00
Eitan Adler
50c1259b80
Remove a ton of obsolete comments from the "developer's handbook".
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-21 13:57:13 +00:00
Eitan Adler
d4f6e340b2
The list of terms of the FreeBSD license requires reproducing an
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unmodified copy of the license with any binary or source distribution of
products using the licensed code. The attached patch to the FAQ
summarizes this in the quick list of FreeBSD license restrictions.
PR: docs/173746
Submitted by: Derek Wood <ddwood@outlook.com>
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-21 13:57:11 +00:00
Eitan Adler
2d84158050
Remove obsolete comments from the architecture handbook.
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-21 13:57:09 +00:00
Eitan Adler
9e4c4ae1fd
Chop stale information about when the stable branches ended support.
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The FAQ already references the releng pages for the specific dates.
This reduces the sources-of-truth that must be updated.
PR: docs/173745
Submitted by: Derek Wood <ddwood@outlook.com>
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-21 13:57:06 +00:00
Eitan Adler
07522c1d64
The disk-manager question is irrelevant, no one uses disk managers anymore.
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Noted by: scottl
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-20 18:25:09 +00:00
Eitan Adler
6b085fa242
The question relating to restrictions on how to divide a disk is
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irrelevant.
Noted by: scottl
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-20 18:25:06 +00:00
Eitan Adler
ec1a479590
Disk geometry stopped being a problem around 1997.
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Noted by: scottl
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-20 18:25:04 +00:00
Eitan Adler
9aa841ff06
Add a section in the FAQ about ZFS
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Reviewed by: peter, peterj, jpaetzel, kpneal@pobox.com ,
Reviewed by: zbeeble@gmail.com , mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu , many others
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-20 02:55:19 +00:00
Eitan Adler
3ff6bac35d
Give the microcode question a name.
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-20 02:07:15 +00:00
Eitan Adler
6f83906b69
Fix stragling para tag.
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-19 13:12:36 +00:00
Eitan Adler
605a533196
Redirect people to more appropriate places rather than replicating
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information in the FAQ. This also means that should the information
change only one source-of-truth need change.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-19 13:12:34 +00:00
Eitan Adler
bf9b953135
Manually fixing a HDD with bad blocks manually has not been a real
...
concern for many years.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-19 13:12:32 +00:00
Eitan Adler
d9645c1218
Fix whitespace nit.
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-19 13:12:29 +00:00
Eitan Adler
b4d94bbbf4
Don't suggest a silly method of detecting the scheduler when the correct
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way is shown immediately above.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-19 13:12:16 +00:00
Benedict Reuschling
fa12d0d4db
Add a section describing the use of the quicksearch feature to
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find ports.
PR: docs/173704
Submitted by: Edward (edward rdtan net)
2012-11-18 17:57:31 +00:00
Eitan Adler
bf3e94160d
Lowercase all the things^W ids in links.
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APPROVED BY: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-18 16:37:54 +00:00
Eitan Adler
81512345a4
"make world" is the wrong thing to do. In addition don't repeat
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the "permenent" directions under the temporary section.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-18 16:37:52 +00:00
Eitan Adler
0ebc37d043
Use "msdosfs" as the example instead of UFS.
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Submitte by: bjk
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-18 16:37:50 +00:00
Eitan Adler
6ea4a1119d
Use a comma prior to a command.
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Indicate that tar will automatically detect the format of the file.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-18 16:37:48 +00:00
Eitan Adler
a16e33d9e9
Restore the word 'file' where it isn't redundant.
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Submitted by: bjk
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-18 16:37:40 +00:00
Remko Lodder
4a72fb9007
Lowercase the LOR-GLOSSARY, this will make it work again.
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PR: 173696
Submitted by: Derek Wood <ddwood@outlook.com>
2012-11-18 13:47:14 +00:00
Eitan Adler
ee9afa89e4
Remove ancient example code from the architecture handbook.
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-17 06:02:41 +00:00
Gabor Pali
1af7bc46fb
- Add information on how to update the source code using Subversion, and
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therefore deprecate CVS and CVSup as ways of updating.
Reviewed by: gavin, brd, eadler
Approved by: gjb
2012-11-17 05:26:13 +00:00
Koop Mast
2e31c8d145
Add OSVERSION bumps:
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1000022 for IPv4 stack switched to network byte order for
IP packet header storage.
1000023 for jitter buffer for USB serial driver code.
1000024 for clang the default compile on i386 and amd64.
Reviewed by: eadler@
2012-11-16 15:43:27 +00:00
Remko Lodder
730c8f2002
Update the example used to add a freebsd partition. The example
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was incorrect.
Submitted by: Venelin Despotov <venelin.despotov@gmail.com>
2012-11-12 18:58:22 +00:00
Eitan Adler
f8cb9d0265
Even modern versions of mac are graphical.
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Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-12 13:59:54 +00:00
Eitan Adler
d53c381ecb
Ports are no longer needed to uncompress these formats.
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Approved by: jkois (mentor)
2012-11-11 22:29:09 +00:00
Eitan Adler
6795e43f6b
Fix stragling paras, and other minor whitespace issues
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Translators may ignore.
Approved by: jkois (mentor, prior to merge conflict resolution)
2012-11-11 22:29:07 +00:00
Eitan Adler
548256e89c
Modernize the removable-drives FAQ.
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Reviewed by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Reviewed by: koobs.freebsd@gmail.com
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-11-11 22:29:03 +00:00
Eitan Adler
61606d36dd
Reduce redundant markup and word and other minor problems reported by
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igor. Limited additional checking was done of the surrounding content.
Approved by: jkois (mentor, before merge conflict resolution)
2012-11-11 22:29:01 +00:00
Eitan Adler
f2a7dcb9f5
Directly answer the question "What is the goal of the FreeBSD Project?"
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and move the (slightly modified) comments over to the question
"Does the FreeBSD license have any restrictions?"
Discussed on: doc
Approved by: jkois (mentor)
2012-11-10 16:43:35 +00:00
Glen Barber
20e93f7f35
Add freebsd-infiniband list.
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PR: 173530
Submitted by: David Wolfskill (david%catwhisker!org)
2012-11-10 14:47:52 +00:00
Eitan Adler
1c94281c13
ids are lowecase since the SGML->XML migration.
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Approved by: jkois (mentor)
2012-11-10 14:05:26 +00:00
Eitan Adler
07457e2d6b
Answer the question "how do I go back from pkgng?"
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Approved by: jkois (mentor)
2012-11-04 17:44:11 +00:00
Eitan Adler
7edde089f3
ACPI is the modern version. Also, add <acronym> tags
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Reviewed by: dteske
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-10-31 21:24:41 +00:00
Eitan Adler
2cb27d92de
The patch mentioned no longer applies.
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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
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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
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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
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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.".
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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the related parts of this chapter.
2012-10-28 19:36:15 +00:00
Warren Block
94bfe9a16b
Whitespace-only fixes. Translators, please ignore.
2012-10-28 00:58:36 +00:00
Warren Block
c0ce3355ee
Whitespace-only fixes. Translators, please ignore.
2012-10-28 00:38:22 +00:00
Warren Block
d1c18311dc
Remove a few redundant uses of "file", expand contractions, remove
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duplicate words. Fix title capitalization, spelling, and simplify
wording in a few sentences.
2012-10-28 00:22:52 +00:00
Warren Block
618fd5c8ee
Adjust wording for better English.
2012-10-27 21:45:15 +00:00
Eitan Adler
5091536aad
Discourage the use of sysinstall. Even users on systems where it
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still exists should not be encouraged to use it.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-10-27 20:04:06 +00:00
Attilio Rao
02418ab7dc
Document that version 1000021 also covers FUSEFS inclusion into base.
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Reviewed and tested by: eadler
2012-10-27 19:30:55 +00:00
Eitan Adler
dafbde5ddf
This may have been true at the time pgj committed it,
...
but it not true any more.
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
2012-10-27 18:36:18 +00:00
Warren Block
26e1e7777d
Refine the mention of freebsd-zfs partitions, and combine the mention of
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gpart(8) with the ZFS paragraph. Also expand a few contractions.
Submitted by: Taras Korenko <ds@ukrhub.net>
2012-10-26 18:38:55 +00:00
Glen Barber
1b1078be5b
Unbreak build.
2012-10-22 19:25:36 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
a781e72f33
Correct the spelling of "DTraceToolkit".
2012-10-22 19:03:22 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
efc860c1a0
Update information on how to obtain the DTrace Toolkit.
2012-10-22 19:02:20 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
94cca9aaa4
Note where to find the DTrace Toolkit scripts.
2012-10-22 18:47:09 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
29a765558f
Consistently use KPI and KBI contractions for the kernel side of things.
2012-10-22 18:15:36 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
a96a428eac
Document __FreeBSD_version 1000020 and 1000021.
2012-10-22 18:13:31 +00:00
Eitan Adler
d53495c4ec
Add some details about how to install Intel microcode updates.
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Approved by: bcr
2012-10-18 02:31:53 +00:00
Warren Block
266ba8ce74
Remove more contractions.
2012-10-14 17:35:16 +00:00
Warren Block
1bd9fc312d
Whitespace-only cleanups. Translators, please ignore.
2012-10-14 17:32:56 +00:00
Warren Block
2d7b96b22f
Remove contractions, fix spelling errors and title capitalization.
2012-10-14 16:01:08 +00:00
Warren Block
8ea28369d5
The typical user will experience only negative benefits from setting
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CFLAGS on modern versions of FreeBSD.
2012-10-14 15:48:05 +00:00
Eitan Adler
46084179be
CVSup will eventually be going away, so don't tell people to use it.
...
Approved by: gabor
2012-10-11 22:08:35 +00:00
Eitan Adler
4e03b0e120
Convert from text to entity.
...
Approved by: bcr
2012-10-11 14:59:33 +00:00
Eitan Adler
d57195f22d
Contractions are discouraged, so don't use them.
...
Approved by: wblock
2012-10-11 02:28:24 +00:00
Warren Block
f3cfb1e7a8
Add application tags to a title.
2012-10-10 23:36:03 +00:00
Warren Block
2be907e9e6
Fix some straggling screen tags and change one set to the more
...
appropriate programlisting. Translators please note that these are
content changes that should be included in translated documents.
2012-10-10 23:28:30 +00:00
Warren Block
4b5a930ee7
Whitespace-only cleanup, fixing indentation and long line wrap.
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Translators, please ignore.
2012-10-10 23:14:38 +00:00
Warren Block
ac0a587dd3
Whitespace-only fixes for long lines and indents. Translators, please
...
ignore.
2012-10-10 18:46:05 +00:00
Warren Block
daf741def9
Add application markup to cvsup-migration title. Also add some commas.
2012-10-10 18:42:18 +00:00
Benedict Reuschling
2ddb1e62c9
Add a section about the migration away from CVSup towards portsnap.
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I made some corrections (mostly typo fixes) to the submitted patch
where appropriate.
PR: docs/172554
Submitted by: beat
2012-10-10 17:12:49 +00:00
Niclas Zeising
2127f5f3d2
Add a note about which options default to on.
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Submitted by: bapt (original version)
Reviewed by: bapt
Approved by: joel (mentor)
2012-10-10 14:02:14 +00:00
Eitan Adler
cddbaec49a
This isn't true base on
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http://www.freebsd.org/administration.html#t-clusteradm
Approved by: bcr
2012-10-07 20:33:16 +00:00
Eitan Adler
9eb60b4ff9
There is no such hat.
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Approved by: bcr
2012-10-07 20:33:13 +00:00
Eitan Adler
34ca784349
There is no such hat.
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Approved by: bcr
2012-10-07 20:33:10 +00:00
Eitan Adler
7f1577da0f
Adapt a mailing list post of mine into an FAQ.
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And you all thought I could only remove FAQ questions!
Approved by: bcr
2012-10-07 20:33:01 +00:00
Eitan Adler
6adb3e3b20
Keep all the bibliography information in one place. This will help when
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it is eventually updated.
Approved by: bcr
2012-10-07 20:32:55 +00:00
Eitan Adler
3401e25d93
Convert to OptionsNG
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Approved by: bcr
2012-10-07 20:32:53 +00:00
Eitan Adler
eff62942ab
SunOS is considered "Historic"
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Approved by: bcr
2012-10-07 20:32:50 +00:00
Eitan Adler
a0a6dddccf
Of course your parallel printer is ridiculously slow:
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it is ridiculously old.
Approved by: bcr
2012-10-07 20:32:46 +00:00
Eitan Adler
22e7568ece
DOS is no longer considered a useable operating system.
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Approved by: bcr
2012-10-07 20:32:43 +00:00
Eitan Adler
b8243aef12
The last cvsup mention is gone!
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Approved by: bcr
2012-10-07 20:32:40 +00:00
Eitan Adler
e5e1f5ba44
Not even the jokes section gets to avoid the beating
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Approved by: bcr
2012-10-07 20:32:37 +00:00
Eitan Adler
8abedaba27
CVSup is going bye-bye.
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Approved by: bcr
2012-10-07 20:32:34 +00:00
Eitan Adler
3c176e016d
No one has asked about SUP in a long time. CVSup is not recommended more
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either.
Approved by: bcr
2012-10-07 20:32:31 +00:00