svn commit: r45802 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Warren Block <[email protected]>
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Author: wblock
Date: Sun Oct 12 21:23:35 2014
New Revision: 45802
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45802
Log:
Clarity and consistency edits.
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Sun Oct 12 21:04:40 2014 (r45801)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Sun Oct 12 21:23:35 2014 (r45802)
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
2014.</p>
<p>The third quarter of 2014 was another productive quarter for
- the FreeBSD project. A lot of work has been done on various ARM
+ the &os; project. A lot of work has been done on various ARM
platforms, with the goal of bringing them to Tier 1 status in
&os; 11. The various ports teams have also worked hard to improve
the state of &os; as a desktop operating system. As usual,
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@
</links>
<body>
- <p>ZFS is one of the premier features of &os; and the quality
+ <p>ZFS is one of the premier features of &os;, and the quality
of the documentation should match that of other important
features. Much of the original documentation from Sun and
Oracle has disappeared, moved, or is about the proprietary
@@ -372,18 +372,17 @@
about ZFS than proper documentation.</p>
<p>After over a year of work, a new ZFS chapter has been added
- to the &os; Handbook. Over 20,000 words describing the
- basics of creating, managing and maintaining a ZFS pool, as
- well as using some of the advanced features like compression,
- deduplication, and delegation. The chapter also contains a
+ to the &os; Handbook. Over 20,000 words describe the
+ basics of creating, managing, and maintaining a ZFS pool.
+ Advanced features like compression,
+ deduplication, and delegation are covered. The chapter also contains a
glossary of terms, explaining a number of the concepts unique
- to ZFS. The chapter also includes documentation of some of
- the many <tt>sysctl</tt> variables that can be used to tune
- ZFS.</p>
+ to ZFS, and documents some of
+ the many <tt>sysctl</tt> variables that can be used for tuning.</p>
- <p>The remaining work is the FAQ section, which aims to help
+ <p>The remaining work to be done is in the FAQ section, which aims to help
users address the most common questions or problems they might
- face with ZFS. It would be useful to hear experiences,
+ face with ZFS. We would like to hear experiences,
questions, misconceptions, gotchas, stumbling blocks and
suggestions for the FAQ section from other users. A use cases
section that highlights some of the cases where ZFS provides
@@ -602,9 +601,9 @@
<p>Note that running Asan tests on stable/10 requires that state
to be set to 1.</p>
- <p>A similar work dedicated to add &os; support to the thread
+ <p>A similar work is in progress to add &os; support to the thread
sanitizer (Tsan), which detects data races in parallel
- programs, is in progress.</p>
+ programs.</p>
</body>
</project>
@@ -626,7 +625,7 @@
</links>
<body>
- <p>This is a Google Summer of code project that aims to provide
+ <p>This is a Google Summer of code project to provide
a noninteractive &os; installation from the network. In
the first part, an implementation was added for scripted
<tt>bsdinstall(8)</tt>. It supports variables such as KEYMAP,
@@ -687,9 +686,9 @@
<p>MATE is a fork of GNOME 2. The MATE ports were updated to
the 1.8 versions.</p>
- <p>Now that cairo, the vector graphics library used by GNOME,
- has been updated to 1.12 the merge of GNOME 3 has started.
- Currently we are doing test builds to find ports broken by the
+ <p>Cairo, the vector graphics library used by GNOME,
+ has been updated to 1.12. This allowed the merge of GNOME 3 to begin.
+ We are currently doing test builds to find ports broken by the
update and pruning ports that do not build any more because of
incompatible updates.</p>
@@ -1199,7 +1198,7 @@
<task>
<p>Write a CAM peripheral driver that implements an interface
- to the FreeBSD <tt>disk(9)</tt>. It will send MMC I/O
+ to the &os; <tt>disk(9)</tt>. It will send MMC I/O
commands using the MMC XPT layer.</p>
</task>
@@ -1321,10 +1320,10 @@
<body>
<p><tt>bhyve</tt> is a hypervisor that runs on the FreeBSD/amd64
- platform. At present, it runs FreeBSD (8.x or later), Linux
+ platform. At present, it runs &os; (8.x or later), Linux
i386/x64, OpenBSD i386/amd64, and NetBSD/amd64 guests.
Current development is focused on enabling additional guest
- operating systems, and implementing features found in other
+ operating systems and implementing features found in other
hypervisors.</p>
<p>A significant amount of progress has been made since the last
@@ -1367,7 +1366,7 @@
<li>Virtio RNG device emulation</li>
- <li>Chapter about <tt>bhyve</tt> added to FreeBSD
+ <li>Chapter about <tt>bhyve</tt> added to &os;
Handbook</li>
</ul>
</body>
@@ -1853,9 +1852,9 @@
The project to update the Intel graphics chipset driver
(i915kms) to a recent snapshot of the Linux upstream code
continues. A patch with a large chunk of updates has been
- made available to check for regressions against current
- functionality, but is not yet expected to provide fully
- functional new functionality. The GEM I/O ioctl code path
+ made available to test for regressions against current
+ functionality, but is not yet expected to provide working new functions.
+ The GEM I/O ioctl code path
has been modified to more closely resemble the Linux code
structure (easing future imports).
</p>
@@ -2011,10 +2010,10 @@
</contact>
<body>
- <p>CAM Target Layer (CTL), used as base for the kernel iSCSI
+ <p>The CAM Target Layer (CTL), used as base for the kernel iSCSI
server, got support for VMWare VAAI and Microsoft ODX
storage acceleration. It permits avoiding network
- bottlenecks and improved storage efficiency on sets of large
+ bottlenecks and improves storage efficiency on sets of large
operations, such as virtual machine (or large file) creation,
initialization to zeros, copy, delete, etc..</p>
@@ -2250,7 +2249,7 @@
<p>In mid-July, &os; 9.3-RELEASE was released without delay
in release cycle.</p>
- <p>In late August, &os; 10.1-RELEASE cycle began, and as of
+ <p>In late August, the &os; 10.1-RELEASE cycle began, and as of
this writing, is expected to stay on schedule.</p>
<p>Work has continued to produce virtual machine images as part
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