- move perks into a question rather than its own section
- stop directing people to email me directly and instead direct people
to email the liasion alias
- it references sysinstall, which is gone
- the scripts used to install the system use pkg_add not pkg
- and are rotted in other ways
- the limitations of sysinstall have been somewhat mitigated by
bsdinstall (which can install into a new directory)
- it warns of outdated stuff (acroread8 doesn't exist anymore)
- package building takes place on runnning system and not on poudriere
- many of the packages referenced don't exist or are vastly changed
- it incorrectly installs the base system
- and more
Discussed with: jmg, Daniel O'Connor, bjk
- laptops do not come with PCMCIA anymore
- laptops don't come with modems anymore
- APM is dead
- ACPI power management is in the handbook
- pccard is dead
Discussed with: jmg
- use pkg instead of directly installing from ports
- reduce references to old versions of gcc, and make the article more
future-proof
- now that we either have a modern version of gcc or clang in base / as
the package building compiler, the impact of binary perf is no longer
relevant.
really, this article should either move into the handbook or be removed.
- remove mail-loopback question. The answer directly quotes the sendmail FAQ,
and we don't need to be a secondary source for one-of-many sendmail specific
questions.
- migrate individual pages from 16 and 17 into the main page
- don't use the word 'absolute'
- make the "I want to help" stuff look nicer
quick review by jgh, discussed with allanjude
- remove a dead link to a now-gone case study
- this page contains a total of 3 sections, with a total of 8 links, there is no
need for a table of contents which pushes the useful content down
- remove leading "So"
- simplify explanation of packages and pkg(7)
- the old package tools are dead, don't ask about converting back
- remove question about killing processes by name. This is not an FAQ and the
FAQ is not an intro to Unix guide.
- don't point out bad IRC channels, just point to good ones
- simplify password hashing question by presuming a modern version (and briefly
mentioning 8)
- combine memory limits questions into single question
reduce the total amount of text and make it more explicit what the minimum and
recommend. Don't include a difference between graphical and non-graphical
systems since these days, RAM is cheap.
Sacrifice some technical pedanticness to simplify the description of amd64 and
i386. For the users whom are actually confused as to which system they should
use, using more plain language (such as 32-bit vs 64-bit) and referencing the
vendors directly would be more helpful.
Also, stop mentioning that both UP and SMP are supported. OpenBSD finished that
project in 2004.
move around websites mailing lists and other things
avoid the term 'World Wide Web'
this reduces the nesting of various sections
also fix capitalization for 'Conferences' since I'm moving that line anyway
Finish the job of r45149 and remove reference to now undocumented 'better
features' of CVS.
Remove note about difference between location of www repo between CVS
and SVN: we switched long enough ago now that it doesn't matter.
Remove additional comparisons to CVS which likely don't matter to committers
anymore.
