Bug 18477 - [PATCH] Several updates to the FAQ are included
Summary: [PATCH] Several updates to the FAQ are included
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Books & Articles (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: alex
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2000-05-10 04:00 UTC by eogren
Modified: 2000-06-14 20:49 UTC (History)
0 users

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file.diff (22.57 KB, patch)
2000-05-10 04:00 UTC, eogren
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Description eogren 2000-05-10 04:00:00 UTC
 This patch includes various updates to the FAQ:
 
 * Minor grammar nits
 * Updated FAQ to show that snapshots are made for both -CURRENT and
-STABLE
 * 3-STABLE snapshots are no longer being produced (as far as I can tell)
 * There are still a couple of places that say "4.0 will be released
in...". Fix those.
 * 2.x releases are no longer available on ftp.FreeBSD.org
 * Snapshots are made daily; not every once in a while
 * Change some entries from "FreeBSD 2.2.x" to simply "FreeBSD" (ie,
"FreeBSD 2.2.x is based on 4.4BSD-Lite -> FreeBSD is based on...)
 * For those who want to mirror the website, we now provide an example
supfile. Tell them to use this.
 * Users can no longer use rsync to monitor the website [at least the
webpage the FAQ points to no longer includes it as an option]
 * Ask potential translators to contact freebsd-doc before beginning, just
in case there is already an existing trans. team
 * Add notices that bad144 has been nuked in FreeBSD 4.0
 * Remove the "if I have > 16MB of RAM, will there be performance
issues?" entry, since a) this question is incredibly and old and b) the
majority  of machines nowadays have > 16MB of RAM
 * Update a couple of places that told the user to edit /etc/sysconfig
 * Tell FBSD 3.1 and later users to put shell scripts in /usr/local/etc
instead of editing /rc/local
 * Some kernel options have changed between 3.X and 4.0; make a note of
this
 * SYSV stuff is now in GENERIC, note this.
 * Tell user to look in /sys/i386/conf/LINT for SMP options instead of
just saying "Yes we support it."
 * Change the "Windows95 + FreeBSD connect to the Internet?" question,
since the best way to do this is to run ppp -nat, instead of kernel ppp +
natd.
 * Remove 8 or 10 lines of gratuitous(sp?) whitespace
 * Put a note at the beginning of the a.out/ELF question that FreeBSD uses
ELF now; before, you had to scroll down a couple of pages before you saw
this.

  There is still a lot of 2.x cruft in the FAQ, but this should clear up
at least some of it.

How-To-Repeat: 
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Comment 1 alex freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-06-12 17:37:30 UTC
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->alex

Let me look at this...
Comment 2 alex freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-06-14 20:48:32 UTC
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Committed, thanks!