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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57c9aba307 Manually mucking with disk geometry is obsolete.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
Eitan Adler
9e7d01acb0 Remove references to ancient technology: apm is dead. 
Discussed with:	dwhite
Reviewed by:	imp
Noted by:	Jakub Lach
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-12-08 00:09:39 +00:00
Eitan Adler
13713cb3de Combine question found-model and found-serial as the answer is the same. 
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-12-07 13:01:14 +00:00
Eitan Adler
bda9ffe914 Clarify that "effective user id of 0" is an issue because it is SETUID. 
Also fix minor view-related style issue in the command. (translators
should _not_ ignore)

Noted by:	Daniel O'Connor
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-12-07 13:01:12 +00:00
Eitan Adler
3d9d8c5956 Combine nearly identical questions custrel and custom-boot-floppy 
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-12-07 13:01:09 +00:00
Eitan Adler
cb085941b5 Remove reference to newsgroup where we don't have a real presence 
anymore.

Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-12-07 13:01:07 +00:00
Eitan Adler
0a94ffd4ce Remove ppp-loginok-thennothing: 
openmode is default, and ppp-same-magic explains how & why to disable.

Noted by:	Daniel O'Connor
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-12-07 13:01:05 +00:00
Eitan Adler
9c96f32822 Remove reference to specific people in the FAQ. Generally official 
documentation should refer to teams or mailing lists to avoid putting
the burden on an individual.

Noted by:	Daniel O'Connor
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
 2012-12-07 13:01:02 +00:00