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>Index: www/en/marketing/os-comparison.sgml
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /usr/cvs/www/en/marketing/os-comparison.sgml,v
>retrieving revision 1.3
>diff -u -r1.3 os-comparison.sgml
>--- www/en/marketing/os-comparison.sgml	9 May 2005 16:06:12 -0000	1.3
>+++ www/en/marketing/os-comparison.sgml	6 Jun 2005 19:12:19 -0000
>@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
>       products are secure, but they offer no guarantee, and their
>       software is not available for inspection or peer review.  Since
>       Windows is <em>closed source</em> there is no way for users to
>-      fix or diagnose any of the security compromises that are regular
>+      fix or diagnose any of the security compromises that are regularly
>       published about Microsoft systems.</p>
> 
>     <p>Microsoft Windows has been affected by a very large number of
>@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@
>     <td><img src="../gifs/smiley.png" alt="[Great]">Microsoft has excellent
>       relationships with hardware vendors.  There are often conflicts
>       when using device drivers on different versions of Microsoft
>-      Windowds, but overall Windows users have excellent access to
>+      Windows, but overall Windows users have excellent access to
>       third party device drivers.</td>
>   </tr>
>   <tr>
>@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@
> 
>     <td><img src="../gifs/frowny.png" alt="[Bad]">The amount of free Windows
>       software is much less than what is available for Unix.  Many
>-      Windodws applications are provided as "shareware", without
>+      Windows applications are provided as "shareware", without
>       source code, so the programs cannot be customized, debugged,
>       improved, or extended by the user.</td>
> 
>@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@
>     <td><img src="../gifs/smiley.png" alt="[Great]">FreeBSD is an advanced BSD Unix
>       operating system.  The source code for the entire system is
>       available in a centralized source code repository running under
>-      CVS.  A large team (300+) of senior developers has write access
>+      CVS.  A large team (300+) of senior developers have write access
>       to this repository and they coordinate development by reviewing
>       and committing the best changes of the development community at
>       large.  FreeBSD is engineered to find elegant solutions for
>@@ -332,11 +332,11 @@
>       a problem yourself.</td>
> 
>     <td><img src="../gifs/plain.png" alt="[OK]">Although support is available for
>-      Windows XP, you should be prepare to spend as long as an hour on
>+      Windows XP, you should be prepared to spend as long as an hour on
>       hold, with no guarantee that your problem will be resolved.
>       Because of the <em>closed source</em> nature of Windows, there
>       is no informal, free support available, and bugs can only be
>-      fixed on Microsoft's schedule, not yours.  Windows Windows XP is
>+      fixed on Microsoft's schedule, not yours.  Windows XP is
>       not updated frequently, you may wait years for bugs to be
>       fixed.</td>
> 
>@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@
>       administrative overhead.  The initial learning curve for simple
>       administration tasks is smaller than with Unix, but it also
>       requires a lot more work to keep the system running with any
>-      signficiant work load.</td>
>+      significant work load.</td>
>   </tr>
> <TR>
> <TH>Total</TH>
>@@ -428,16 +428,16 @@
> <h2>Performance Benchmarks</h2>
> 
> <p>Numerous benchmarks have continued to show FreeBSD's clear
>-advantage for network performance.  Yahoo!, Xoom.com, QWest, and some
>+advantage for network performance.  Yahoo!, Xoom.com, Qwest, and some
> of our other largest customers have published results showing the
> clear case for using FreeBSD in the enterprise.  It's important to
> understand that benchmarking is just a game, and that for real
> performance comparisons you need to perform real-world test.  However,
> it's easy to find published benchmarks on the Internet which show
>-FreeBSD with a commanding lead over the competition :</p>
>+FreeBSD with a commanding lead over the competition:</p>
> 
> <ul>
>-  <li>Garnet Group Comparisons showing FreeBSD 20-30% faster than
>+  <li>Gartner Group Comparisons showing FreeBSD 20-30% faster than
>   Linux on identical hardware: <a
>   href="http://advisor.gartner.com/n_inbox/hotcontent/hc_2121999_3.html#h8">http://advisor.gartner.com/n_inbox/hotcontent/hc_2121999_3.html#h8</a>.</li>
> 
>@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@
> <h2>Security</h2>
> 
> <p>The Computer Emergency Response Team, or CERT, studies Internet
>-security vulnerability, provides incident response services to sites
>+security vulnerabilities, provides incident response services to sites
> that have been victims of attack, publishes a variety of security
> alerts, does research in wide-networked computing, and develops
> information and training to help improve security at Internet
>@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@
>   and clean up after itself!  Ports can of course depend on other
>   ports which are built automatically in the same fashion and binary
>   packages can be used as well.  The FreeBSD Ports Collection was
>-  recognizes very early on as an elegant method to deal with a complex
>+  recognized very early on as an elegant method to deal with a complex
>   problem so it's functionality has been shared with the other BSD
>   Unix systems and some Linux distributions as well.</p>

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