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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
Eitan Adler
5e6ad01b56 Update the i18n policy to fix a stale link. 
Approved by:	core (jhb)
 2012-12-11 23:26:49 +00:00
Maxim Konovalov
01c378ac08 Grammar. 2012-12-11 16:49:17 +00:00
Sergey Kandaurov
2f42e3167e Sync the cutting-edge chapter, update associated xrefs. 
MFen:
	handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.xml	r28061 -> r33528
 2012-12-11 16:19:40 +00:00
Ryusuke SUZUKI
b91dcbbadf - Merge the following from the English version: 
r40230 -> r40335	head/ja_JP.eucJP/htdocs/index.xsl
 2012-12-11 13:39:57 +00:00
Glen Barber
a30f6afed8 Add the first Faces of FreeBSD entry. 
Submitted by:	deb
 2012-12-10 23:56:22 +00:00
Glen Barber
2dc0364c87 Fix duplicate entry of latest news addition. 
Pointyhat:	gjb (myself)
 2012-12-10 22:59:11 +00:00
Glen Barber
f52e734252 Fix an entity that I'm rather surprised did not generate an error. 2012-12-10 22:55:21 +00:00
Glen Barber
fc0b431095 Add a link to the FreeBSD Foundation Fundraising Campaign. 
Requested by:	rwatson
 2012-12-10 22:46:02 +00:00
Glen Barber
e2b0ef7bb2 Add text to make it more clear where monetary donations can be 
sent.

Requested by:	rwatson, gavin
 2012-12-10 18:33:09 +00:00
Niclas Zeising
03a2e1a504 Fix spelling. 
Noticed by:	wblock
Approved by:	joel (mentor)
 2012-12-10 17:00:54 +00:00
Rene Ladan
78ae961059 MFen r40230 -> r40335 2012-12-10 16:09:38 +00:00
Glen Barber
d83e3585cd Put a more prominent "Donate to FreeBSD" button on the index page. 
This currently uses the same CSS as the "New to FreeBSD?" button for
now.

Requested by:	rwatson
 2012-12-10 15:35:45 +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
Wen Heping
d430e0f74d - Add my PGP key 2012-12-10 02:11:24 +00:00
Rene Ladan
cfacf1554a MFen r39989 -> r40313 2012-12-09 22:25:20 +00:00
Glen Barber
3c78131e72 Link the Privacy Policy to the index page. 2012-12-09 20:07:02 +00:00
Mark Linimon
e966e8a277 Fix the location of the rc.d files. Add the very handy sysutils/zfs-stats 
port to recommended.
 2012-12-09 17:47:24 +00:00
Rene Ladan
d3dcca6953 MFen: 
- books/Makefile r38826 -> r40258 (SRCID bump only)
- htdocs/where.xml r39920 -> r40278
 2012-12-09 10:36:41 +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