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Warren Block
8b83e67420 Add a quick start that shows starting X without a configuration file. 
Update the explanation of which graphics cards are supported.
 2014-11-24 02:15:39 +00:00
Jason Helfman
e0676e6a78 - address command-line issue in jail building section 
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2014-November/024583.html

Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1205
Reported by:	david.orourke@gmail.com
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2014-11-21 18:17:32 +00:00
Jason Helfman
85e588f2c3 - update tuning for jails 
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2014-November/024540.html

Differential Revision:		https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1135
Submitted by:	cedric@synapse-interactive.fr (mailing-list note)
Approved by:	wblock (mentor)
 2014-11-14 00:08:17 +00:00
Jason Helfman
dda4400850 - fix formatting for SourceForge, and point out FreeBSD site to check 
for ports

Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1156
Approved by:	wblock (mentor)
 2014-11-14 00:05:28 +00:00
Jason Helfman
600fccecdf - add a note regarding pkg-search 
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1136
Approved by:	wblock (mentor)
 2014-11-14 00:02:58 +00:00
Warren Block
0fe7bfaeb5 Update bluetooth rfcomm_sppd documentation. 
PR:		194691
Submitted by:	tobias.rehbein@web.de
Reviewed by:	jhb
 2014-11-13 18:40:20 +00:00
Jason Helfman
c47b93acf0 - tighten verbage 
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1139
Approved by:	wblock (mentor)
 2014-11-12 21:05:08 +00:00
Christian Brueffer
fdc7bf1912 Fix typo. 
Submitted by:	stargrave@stargrave.org
 2014-11-12 20:12:16 +00:00
Jason Helfman
c94587ee51 Freecode is now serving static content. Update handbook to reflect new 
and active software sources.

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2014-November/024532.html

Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1131
Submitted by:	ssanty1969@gmail.com via mail to doc@
Reviewed by:	wblock,remko (mentors)
Approved by:	remko (mentor)
 2014-11-10 19:35:01 +00:00
Warren Block
c7f81016f8 Add a missing entry for freebsd-pkg in the list of mailing lists. It 
was already present in the list of charters.
 2014-11-06 15:13:50 +00:00
Warren Block
5d9ff04d77 Add IDs to the quick start sections. 2014-11-05 16:20:39 +00:00
Eitan Adler
daf2f66d99 Fix typo 
Submitted by:	Winston <wbe@psr.com>
 2014-11-02 06:00:13 +00:00
Jason Helfman
9ac5484ddb - address concern and point out that ports-mgmt/poudriere or 
ports-mgmt/poudriere-devel need to be installed in order
  for poudriere(8) to be available.

PR:		194584
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1057
Submitted by:	ngie
Reviewed by:	wblock,remko
Approved by:	wblock
 2014-10-31 22:12:20 +00:00
Warren Block
ae655514c9 Correct the example for identifying a wireless card. 2014-10-24 13:37:36 +00:00
Benedict Reuschling
1023235089 Fix broken link to fetchmail homepage. 
The berlios website has shut down on May 12th, 2014.

Submitted by:	Bjoern Heidotting
 2014-10-14 10:06:25 +00:00
Gavin Atkinson
355b398813 Correct location of Linux Flash browser plugin. 
PR:		193655
Submitted by:	raycherng gmail com
 2014-10-13 23:14:10 +00:00
Benedict Reuschling
67568f7c76 Add an optional step that describes how to change the 
keyboard map in single user mode.

Differential Revision:	    https://reviews.freebsd.org/D890
Reviewed by:		    wblock
 2014-10-05 16:53:51 +00:00
Warren Block
e67742da2c Remove repetitive and unnecessary table of applications from synopsis. 
Remove mention of Adobe Reader, which has been deprecated.  Since Adobe
Reader was the last Linux-native application discussed, remove the
mention of Linux emulation from the synopsis.  Add ePDFview and Okular
to the document viewers section for PR 193668.

PR:		193668 (partial)
Submitted by:	raul.cheleguini@gmail.com, anthony@acperkins.com
 2014-10-02 00:31:14 +00:00
Warren Block
9d62c3b577 Fix typo. 
PR:		194055
Submitted by:	mike.543@comcast.net
 2014-10-01 02:46:58 +00:00
Gavin Atkinson
cedbf10075 Pad out the section on tethering, and clarify which device is likely to 
be needed for iPhones/iPads, Android devices, and older devices.

Change the "kldload" examples to use "if_foo" rather than "foo" as only
the former works on 9.x.
 2014-09-29 18:04:35 +00:00
Gavin Atkinson
719a10a457 Macintosh -> Mac where appropriate. 2014-09-29 17:47:53 +00:00
Gavin Atkinson
54a2b08fbc All "New-World" Mac systems were referred to as Mac and not Macintosh. 2014-09-29 17:35:07 +00:00
Benedict Reuschling
d9717ce81a Fix typos. 
Add space between words.

Submitted by:	Bjoern Heidotting
Obtained from:	The FreeBSD German Documentation Project
 2014-09-27 11:10:05 +00:00
Gavin Atkinson
0b3c013fe3 Fix link to CDDL license. 
Submitted by:	Matthew Rezny
 2014-09-26 14:17:38 +00:00
Allan Jude
5cc0173b57 Fix typos in the 'who uses FreeBSD page' 
Add voxer to the list of those who use FreeBSD

PR:		193599
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
Sponsored by:	ScaleEngine Inc.
 2014-09-25 20:57:03 +00:00
Allan Jude
df7b1c6e6c Add a missing title tag to the BIND example in the ezjail section 
of the jails chapter

Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
Sponsored by:	ScaleEngine Inc.
 2014-09-25 14:36:47 +00:00
Glen Barber
a12e3562ee Mention Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating 
System, 2nd Ed in the bibliography.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
 2014-09-18 20:51:12 +00:00
Gavin Atkinson
00ec818e7c Clarify that only 10.0-RELEASE and above can automatically generate 
certificates for Sendmail at the moment.
 2014-09-16 22:17:03 +00:00
Benedict Reuschling
ef278fd009 Remove a dataset from the mount(8) output, as it does not exist at that point. 
Submitted by:	Bjoern Heidotting
 2014-09-15 16:55:36 +00:00
Warren Block
923bce1851 Finally commit the rewritten ZFS section as a new chapter. This greatly 
expands the original content, mostly due to the work of Allan Jude.
 2014-09-13 02:08:33 +00:00
Ryusuke SUZUKI
28eaa073a8 Move "and" to correct location. 2014-09-12 11:34:48 +00:00
Warren Block
a0c3451706 Wording and clarity improvements. 2014-09-10 22:34:23 +00:00
Allan Jude
1ababd89b4 Remove more references to pkg_add 
Approved by:	bcr
Sponsored by:	ScaleEngine Inc.
CR:		D733
 2014-09-06 20:11:59 +00:00
Allan Jude
9ebd6001cc Replace all occurances of 'pkgng' with 'pkg' in the handbook 
Kept existing xml:id's to avoid breaking external links to the documentation
Sanitized the documentation of references to pkg_add
Fix an incorrect variable name: daily_backup_pkgng_enable should be daily_backup_pkgdb_enable
Fix a linebreak in the middle of a variable name
Clarify that pkg2ng is not a required step on newer systems

Approved by:	bcr
Sponsored by:	ScaleEngine Inc.
 2014-09-06 20:10:17 +00:00
Allan Jude
4b587fd21f Improve bhyve chapter based on feedback from grehan@ 
Improve documentation about /etc/ttys and mention that it is included by default in 9.3 and 10.1

Approved by:	bcr
Sponsored by:	ScaleEngine Inc.
CR:		https://reviews.freebsd.org/D429
 2014-09-06 19:50:12 +00:00
Warren Block
01060acbb4 Add missing space. 2014-08-31 13:56:11 +00:00
Gavin Atkinson
27da5ad1b2 Switch cvsweb -> svnweb URL for bsd-family-tree 2014-08-29 16:14:10 +00:00
Warren Block
b0c7dc2945 Be more specific about necessary configuration when using Xorg in a 
VirtualBox FreeBSD guest.

PR:		190829
Submitted by:	Steven Doerfler <sgd-freebsdbugzilla@lugaru.com>
 2014-08-26 20:38:18 +00:00
Jason Helfman
ce4a847d11 - add information about how boot loader searches for files 
PR:	187613
Submitted by:	fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com
Approved by:	bcr
Differential Review:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D660
 2014-08-26 15:43:18 +00:00
Warren Block
c405269a35 Add new sysutils/ezjail section. Reviewed on IRC, -doc, and with 
individuals through email.  Particular thanks to Glen Barber for his
experience and patience.
 2014-08-23 17:54:21 +00:00
Edward Tomasz Napierala
3a00f40dd0 Fix two thinkos in autofs chapter. 
Approved by:	gjb@
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
 2014-08-20 10:50:10 +00:00
Edward Tomasz Napierala
62cac0bccf Add documentation for autofs(5). 
Reviewed by:	gjb@
Approved by:	gjb@
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
 2014-08-19 09:54:47 +00:00
Gavin Atkinson
458b545505 Nowhere in the handbook do we mention CVSup, M-Systems or DiskOnChip 
any more, so remove the trademark attributions.
 2014-08-17 22:15:25 +00:00
Allan Jude
54268b165f The GELI module is built by default, but the GENERIC kernel does not include GELI by default. 
Correct the handbook to reflect this

PR:		192453
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2014-08-07 15:15:42 +00:00
Gavin Atkinson
2e7186064b Both http://forums.FreeBSD.org and http://wiki.FreeBSD.org redirect to 
secure versions of the sites, so link to the secure version directly.
Note that for wiki links I have only fixed up key links in navbars etc,
there are a large number of other links but fixing them does not seem
worth the churn.
 2014-08-02 13:39:27 +00:00
Gavin Atkinson
58b4e43cd3 Bump minimum disk space requirements to a realistic absolute minimum for 
10.0/amd64.
 2014-08-01 23:17:19 +00:00
Gavin Atkinson
995f0b4820 Change the "basics" chapter to document FreeBSD 9 and 10 over FreeBSD 8: 
- The system console is now cons25, not xterm
 - acd0 devices are no longer used, switch to ada
 - We no longer have as many FSF utilities, therefore fewer info pages
 2014-07-28 19:04:26 +00:00
Gavin Atkinson
397cff5e54 When talking about IDE/SATA disks, prioritise SATA over IDE, and "ada" 
style naming over "ad".  The latter has been the default since FreeBSD
9, and available since FreeBSD 8.

PR:		175712 (idea, not content)
 2014-07-27 23:44:30 +00:00
Gavin Atkinson
399a25bcce rsync://ftp.mtu.ru/ no longer shares the FreeBSD-gnats collection, and 
even if it did we would probably not want to advertise it any more.
 2014-07-26 21:27:42 +00:00
Gavin Atkinson
0ec44ade3b Mention the if_ipheth module in the tethering section. 2014-07-24 21:29:29 +00:00