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Eitan Adler
5ac1576b5b Update and clarify the securelevel question. 
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2013-01-13 06:21:55 +00:00
Eitan Adler
feaa7e5a4e Answer the question "My laptop has a Synaptics touchpad. Can I use it in 
X?"

Submitted by:	Bas Smeelen <b.smeelen@ose.nl>
Reviewed by:	-doc
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2013-01-13 06:19:54 +00:00
Eitan Adler
8e181c4a26 Fix error which crept into handbook as a result of my recent change 
Approved by:	bcr (mentor, implicit)
 2013-01-13 06:18:15 +00:00
Eitan Adler
4ea8f9ea87 Update and modernize the running-X question 
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)

Patch reconstructed by hand
 2013-01-13 06:16:37 +00:00
Eitan Adler
f67f91bab4 Update and expand on the why-kernel-big question in the handbook. 
PR:		docs/174244
Submitted by:	Bas Smeelen <b.smeelen@ose.nl>
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2013-01-13 06:11:30 +00:00
Eitan Adler
05d2401e84 Reduce and subtract extra words. 
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2013-01-13 06:02:31 +00:00
Eitan Adler
2f26e1d4ce Eliminate the "Commercial Applications" chapter as it now contains no 
questions.

Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2013-01-13 06:00:25 +00:00
Eitan Adler
a43ceff709 Reorganize a bit: move database systems from "commercial applications" 
to "user applications"

Approved by:	bcr (mentor)

Merge conflicts handled manually
 2013-01-13 05:59:42 +00:00
Eitan Adler
d63bf467d5 Reorganize a bit: OpenOffice and Liberoffice are not commercial 
applications.

Approved by:	bcr (mentor)

Merge conflicts handled manually
 2013-01-13 05:56:49 +00:00
Eitan Adler
d42d1b16af Actually correct and still right, but PNP ISA cards aren't relevant 
anymore.

Noted by:	imp
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2013-01-13 05:54:06 +00:00
Eitan Adler
e8b50cb82d Don't compare swap usage to Linux: it isn't known if this comparison is 
still true.

Expand a bit on what &os; might do with the extra memory.

Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2013-01-13 05:52:35 +00:00
Eitan Adler
5c4e36738c Remove specific example of outdated and ancient modem. 
Reviewed by:	holocaine
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2013-01-13 05:48:42 +00:00
Eitan Adler
f0dccfc78d The linked article is out of date. 
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2013-01-13 05:45:21 +00:00
Eitan Adler
1c05d3a222 "likely can be deleted stray IRQ is no longer a FAQ. It was an ISA card 
issue."

Noted by:	imp
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2013-01-13 05:44:24 +00:00
Eitan Adler
46a47f4b25 Reorganize a bit: combine "General" and "Memory" in the hardware 
section.  There is currently only one question in 'General' and two in
'memory'

Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2013-01-13 05:43:14 +00:00
Eitan Adler
e50028b83d It seems unlikely anyone would have asked "Where can I get CDE for 
FreeBSD?" in years.

Discussed with:	gonzo
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2013-01-13 05:41:30 +00:00
Eitan Adler
8e3fb6ce36 Remove Motif FAQ - it isn't up to date and no one has asked about it in 
years.  Perhaps everyone reads the FAQ.

Noted by:	cpet
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2013-01-13 05:39:58 +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
Glen Barber
a3b0cd4bf8 Update FAQ entry for snapshot releases. 2012-12-15 20:49:42 +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
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