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Isabell Long
65cf66cbaf - The nsupdate(8) man page no longer exists: nsupdate(1) replaces it. Change 
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". 
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 
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. 
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. 
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/ 
Submitted by:	ryusuke
 2012-12-24 17:40:30 +00:00
Glen Barber
de81a6e4c2 Fix path to editors/openoffice-3. 
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. 
Submitted by:	peter
 2012-12-20 23:26:48 +00:00
Glen Barber
a5db8029b9 Reindent after section change. Rewrap lines while here. 
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 
page.

Submitted by:	peter, simon, brd
 2012-12-20 22:47:47 +00:00
Eitan Adler
5922250c81 INN is ancient and crufty 
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. 
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. 
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" 
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 
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 
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. 
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. 
Noted by:	Jakub Lach
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-12-17 16:01:51 +00:00
Glen Barber
77922566f7 Fix a missing space. 
Submitted by:	eadler
 2012-12-17 01:07:13 +00:00
Eitan Adler
63cfc33cbf Finish pointing users that care about FreeBSD internals to the 
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. 
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. 
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