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Pete Fritchman
a281f763e0 Update Michal Pasternak's email address. 2003-05-10 21:03:37 +00:00
Giorgos Keramidas
f917b7ad98 - Update parts of this article and add a new "Tips and tricks for 
writing a good problem report" section.
- Fix a few typos.
- Add a link to the searchable gnats database at FreeBSD.org.
- Point the users at /usr/src/UPDATING for more info before sending PRs.
- Be more verbose about patches and inline inclusion of diffs in a PR.
- Emphasize the importance of Class: maintainer-update and the use of
  "[maintainer update]"
- Describe what "[patch]" in synopsis lines means now that it's
  commonly used to help people who read PR indexes.

Submitted by:	Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
 2003-05-10 14:02:32 +00:00
Tom Hukins
32d5a0d35c Add a reference to the NIC configuration section. 2003-05-10 12:12:02 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
6e06ed35ef On 5.X systems device ccd must be used instead of pseudo-device ccd for 
4.X.  While I'm there some little sgml fixes.
 2003-05-10 11:15:57 +00:00
Jesus Rodriguez Cuesta
31400ac28b Fix minor spelling: 
s/langiage/language

Submitted by: bixen@tikismikis.org
 2003-05-09 20:42:42 +00:00
Paul Richards
8df2d44ecf Add my PGP key. 2003-05-09 15:42:27 +00:00
Michael Landin
fc8640861f Fix cshumway entry, so sorted by family name. 
Approved by: roberto(mentor)
 2003-05-09 10:29:32 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
0ea1c1562b Typo s/ulitmately/ultimately/ 2003-05-08 21:27:16 +00:00
Bruce A. Mah
a0c3284b05 Add entity for bsdlabel(8). 2003-05-08 21:06:36 +00:00
Ceri Davies
db78af2e1d Add a Q&A section with some basic information on /var/empty. 2003-05-08 19:58:37 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
63be88b9f7 Add Diomidis Spinellis to additional contributors for his high 
quality PRs, chkman script, sed contributions and probably more
I have overlooked.
 2003-05-08 19:17:29 +00:00
Ceri Davies
e252ab256a Add an errant '?' missing from one of the Qs. 2003-05-08 19:13:36 +00:00
Ceri Davies
15534f332c Use the a.announce entity rather than the a.announce.name one to improve 
grammar.
 2003-05-08 19:09:07 +00:00
Ceri Davies
91a95f281a Correct the a.stable entity. 
Submitted by:	Simon L. Nielsen <simon@nitro.dk>
 2003-05-08 18:54:38 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
3d770d7afc These files are useless, they are now in doc/share/pgpkeys. 2003-05-08 10:24:29 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
4dfc0b1405 Update links regarding pgpkeys to match new pgpkeys files location 
(doc/share/pgpkeys).
 2003-05-08 10:21:18 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
dc68e8657b Fix my previous bogus commit: s/<--/<!-- 
Pointy Hat:	blackend
 2003-05-08 10:09:14 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
1ace559219 PGPkeys separation: now the pgpkeys will be in doc/share/pgpkeys, update 
all files using the keys to match the change.
 2003-05-08 10:07:51 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
5a5ac784a8 PGPkeys separation: pgpkeys will now be located in doc/share/pgpkeys. 2003-05-08 09:48:39 +00:00
Oliver Lehmann
e1e459b790 Traditional first commit. 
- Added myself to authors.ent
 - Removed myself from Additional Contributors
 - Added myself to Developers

Approved by:	alex (mentor)
 2003-05-06 15:13:13 +00:00
Michael Landin
06267d71fc Add my GnuPG key 
Approved by: roberto (mentor)
 2003-05-06 12:01:01 +00:00
Sean Chittenden
0e3f6cb342 Add Larry Rosenman for his ports/net/iog port. 2003-05-06 08:26:35 +00:00
Hiten Pandya
bbffb0e6dc Change 'automagically' into 'automatically'. 
Approved by: des (mentor)
 2003-05-05 19:48:17 +00:00
Hiten Pandya
476187f0a9 Use 'irrelevant' instead of 'moot'. 
Approved by: des (mentor)
 2003-05-05 19:36:10 +00:00
Hiten Pandya
5b519a1e7e Use 'automatically' instead of 'automagically'. 
Approved by: des (mentor)
 2003-05-05 19:35:08 +00:00
Michael Landin
dca4027a8b Move my entity from contributors to developers section. 
Approved by: roberto (mentor)
 2003-05-05 14:28:53 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
18bc5f5536 * Add some more application tags 
* Close a parenthesis

(Nothing new to be translated)

Approved by:	murray
 2003-05-05 07:28:54 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
3084e9f45a Fix a grammar issue in the recent anti-aliasing commit. 
Approved by:	murray
 2003-05-05 07:23:36 +00:00
Joe Marcus Clarke
0a43ea29b3 Fix a spelling mistake. 
Approved by:	murray
 2003-05-05 06:54:05 +00:00
Murray Stokely
717c12416d Add an infrequent FAQ about using MIDI files in FreeBSD. This 
probably belongs in more of a "FreeBSD Cookbook" type document.

PR:		docs/51203
 2003-05-05 04:47:22 +00:00
Murray Stokely
5a47de5057 New FAQ entry about available free memory. Provided by John Dyson 
through Usenet.

PR:		docs/38118
 2003-05-05 04:18:20 +00:00
Murray Stokely
c2f098f25f Add a new FAQ entry about the memory states displayed by top. 
(answer from a John Dyson newgroup post)
PR:		docs/38117
 2003-05-05 04:08:22 +00:00
Murray Stokely
8c4d32e232 Clarify dumpon/swapon usage wrt getting a kernel crash dump. 
PR:		docs/50790
 2003-05-05 03:40:01 +00:00
Murray Stokely
afbf6cdb4a Add 15 indexterms, so that users can easily find information about 
anti-aliased fonts, TrueType, GNOME, KDE, etc.. from the index in a
printed version of the Handbook.

Sponsored by:	FreeBSD Mall, Inc.
 2003-05-05 03:18:41 +00:00
Murray Stokely
0a35ae7e21 Bring the anti-aliased font section up to reality with respect to 
XFree86 4.3.0 and Gnome 2.

PR:		docs/51770
Submitted by:	Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
 2003-05-05 03:06:14 +00:00
Murray Stokely
6a1b90b827 The targets for building the boot floppies have changed since this was 
originally written.  Update accordingly.
 2003-05-04 22:43:19 +00:00
Murray Stokely
60958edfec Remove outdated first person performance testimonial (Pentium 90). 
PR:		docs/51658, docs/50665
 2003-05-04 21:20:59 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
57df57c420 Move 's out from application tags and some punctuation fixes. 2003-05-04 21:14:45 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
414c99ad10 MFen 1.97 --> 1.110 2003-05-04 21:05:39 +00:00
Murray Stokely
9e9e98f110 Add more information about Alcatel SpeedTouch USB 
PR:		docs/50977
Submitted by:	Dominic Marks <dom@cus.org.uk>,
		Jason Mann <jason@b0rken.org>
 2003-05-04 13:29:52 +00:00
Murray Stokely
0d2e08017f Normalize indexterms. 
Sponsored by:	FreeBSD Mall, Inc.
 2003-05-04 12:18:24 +00:00
Murray Stokely
1d6df4c5aa Normalize indexterms. 
Several index terms were too long and this prevented the index from
being displayed in the normal two column style in print output.

Sponsored by:	FreeBSD Mall, Inc.
 2003-05-04 12:12:25 +00:00
Murray Stokely
48e7898744 Capitalize section titles per Chicago Manual of Style. 2003-05-04 12:01:40 +00:00
Murray Stokely
27ba1359ad Whitespace changes for clarity. 
Translators please ignore.
 2003-05-04 11:45:58 +00:00
Murray Stokely
f8f3aa5727 Modify indexterms to be more consistent with other disk-related index 
entries in other chapters.  Remove some rendundant indexterms.  Thanks
to Hiten for indexing this in the first place.
 2003-05-04 11:37:58 +00:00
Murray Stokely
03c7c73250 Add indexterms relating to software RAID. 
Trim authorgroup.

Sponsored by:	FreeBSD Mall, Inc.
 2003-05-04 11:31:51 +00:00
Murray Stokely
a3f6280993 www/links1 is sufficient to dump HTML to text for all cases, so we 
don't need to use w3m here.  Move HTML2TXT definition from doc.html.mk
to the global doc.project.mk.
 2003-05-04 11:13:57 +00:00
Murray Stokely
771e009df1 * Clarify / Remove first person exposition and personal anecdotes. 
PR:		docs/50664
 2003-05-04 11:00:06 +00:00
Murray Stokely
90ff2cb926 More work on the new GBDE section: 
* Remove a comment encouraging someone to convert an xref to a ulink.
* Simplify run-on sentence in introduction.
* Use more descriptive DocBook tags.
* Refer to our two versions of UFS as UFS1 and UFS2 rather than UFS
  and UFS2. (1)
* Move an ephemeral URL from the main text to a footnote.
* Note that newfs -O2 is the default for FreeBSD 5.1 and later (1).
* Wordsmith (1, partially)

PR:		docs/51598
(1) Submitted by:	bmah
 2003-05-04 09:58:52 +00:00
Murray Stokely
d0033cfa5d Improve recently committed GDBE section. 
* Capitalize section titles.
* Use more descriptive DocBook tags.
* Improve a few references.
* Improve a few sentences.

PR:		docs/51598
Submitted by:	bmah (mostly)
 2003-05-04 09:10:25 +00:00