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Eitan Adler
6144db3a79 The npx module is no longer required to build or link. 
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 
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-12-16 22:56:36 +00:00
Eitan Adler
dbd558b55d Add some explanation about ports-announce to the PH. 
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. 
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. 
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 
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 
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 
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. 
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?" 
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 
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 
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. 
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. 
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 
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 
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 
anymore.

Noted by:	imp
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-12-11 23:40:36 +00:00
Eitan Adler
dc24fbaca1 Add mention of specific hardware. 
Submitted by:	imp
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-12-11 23:40:34 +00:00
Niclas Zeising
03a2e1a504 Fix spelling. 
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. 
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-12-10 15:31:26 +00:00
Eitan Adler
448a5c5d4b iomega devices are no longer mentioned in the FAQ. 
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 
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. 
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-12-10 15:31:19 +00:00
Eitan Adler
2d477bd5cf use two spaces at sentence start 
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-12-10 15:31:17 +00:00
Eitan Adler
36c5f88505 Hot plugging of the usb system works 
Noted by:	imp
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-12-10 15:31:15 +00:00
Eitan Adler
2795e1f908 3dfx went defunct in 2002 
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. 
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. 
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-12-10 15:31:08 +00:00
Eitan Adler
5125073eac Discuss uart in a question about supporting serial cards. 
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 
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, 
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" 
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 
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 
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 
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. 
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 
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. 
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 
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 
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. 
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. 
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. 
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. 
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 
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 
anymore.

Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-12-07 13:01:07 +00:00
Eitan Adler
0a94ffd4ce Remove ppp-loginok-thennothing: 
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 
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 
released in 1994.

Noted by:	Joe Barbish
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-12-07 13:01:00 +00:00