svn commit: r51062 - in head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/12.0R: errata hardware readme relnotes
Glen Barber <[email protected]>
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Author: gjb
Date: Thu Oct 5 21:13:43 2017
New Revision: 51062
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/51062
Log:
Line wrapping and indentation fixes to conform to FDP style
guidelines.
Copyrights got bumped as part of this commit, but these have
not been translated in years.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/12.0R/errata/errata.xml
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/12.0R/hardware/hardware.xml
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/12.0R/readme/readme.xml
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/12.0R/relnotes/relnotes.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/12.0R/errata/errata.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/12.0R/errata/errata.xml Thu Oct 5 20:33:00 2017 (r51061)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/12.0R/errata/errata.xml Thu Oct 5 21:13:43 2017 (r51062)
@@ -12,19 +12,21 @@
]>
<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
- xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
- version="5.0">
+ xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+ version="5.0">
<info>
- <title>&os; &release; Errata </title>
+ <title>&os; &release; Errata</title>
- <author><orgname>The &os; Project</orgname></author>
+ <author>
+ <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname>
+ </author>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
<copyright>
- <year>2015</year>
-
- <holder role="mailto:[email protected]">The &os; Documentation Project</holder>
+ <year>2017</year>
+ <holder role="mailto:[email protected]">The &os; Documentation
+ Project</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
@@ -36,38 +38,37 @@
<abstract>
<para>This document lists errata items for &os; &release;,
- containing significant information discovered after the release
- or too late in the release cycle to be otherwise included in the
- release documentation.
- This information includes security advisories, as well as news
- relating to the software or documentation that could affect its
- operation or usability. An up-to-date version of this document
- should always be consulted before installing this version of
+ containing significant information discovered after the
+ release or too late in the release cycle to be otherwise
+ included in the release documentation. This information
+ includes security advisories, as well as news relating to the
+ software or documentation that could affect its operation or
+ usability. An up-to-date version of this document should
+ always be consulted before installing this version of
&os;.</para>
- <para>This errata document for &os; &release;
- will be maintained until the release of &os; &release.next;.</para>
+ <para>This errata document for &os; &release; will be maintained
+ until the release of &os; &release.next;.</para>
</abstract>
</info>
<sect1 xml:id="intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
- <para>This errata document contains <quote>late-breaking news</quote>
- about &os; &release;
- Before installing this version, it is important to consult this
- document to learn about any post-release discoveries or problems
- that may already have been found and fixed.</para>
+ <para>This errata document contains <quote>late-breaking
+ news</quote> about &os; &release; Before installing this
+ version, it is important to consult this document to learn about
+ any post-release discoveries or problems that may already have
+ been found and fixed.</para>
<para>Any version of this errata document actually distributed
with the release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) will be
out of date by definition, but other copies are kept updated on
the Internet and should be consulted as the <quote>current
- errata</quote> for this release. These other copies of the
- errata are located at
- <link xlink:href="https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/" />,
- plus any sites
- which keep up-to-date mirrors of this location.</para>
+ errata</quote> for this release. These other copies of the
+ errata are located at <link
+ xlink:href="https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/" />, plus any
+ sites which keep up-to-date mirrors of this location.</para>
<para>Source and binary snapshots of &os; &release.branch; also
contain up-to-date copies of this document (as of the time of
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/12.0R/hardware/hardware.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/12.0R/hardware/hardware.xml Thu Oct 5 20:33:00 2017 (r51061)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/12.0R/hardware/hardware.xml Thu Oct 5 21:13:43 2017 (r51062)
@@ -13,14 +13,17 @@
<!ENTITY % devauto PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Auto Generated Device Lists//EN" "../dev-auto.ent">
%devauto;
]>
-<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0">
- <info><title>&os; &release.current; Hardware Notes</title>
-
+<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+ xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0">
- <author><orgname>The &os; Documentation Project</orgname></author>
+ <info>
+ <title>&os; &release.current; Hardware Notes</title>
- <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
+ <author>
+ <orgname>The &os; Documentation Project</orgname>
+ </author>
+ <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>2000</year>
<year>2001</year>
@@ -40,7 +43,8 @@
<year>2015</year>
<year>2016</year>
<year>2017</year>
- <holder role="mailto:[email protected]">The &os; Documentation Project</holder>
+ <holder role="mailto:[email protected]">The &os; Documentation
+ Project</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
@@ -119,8 +123,8 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>The single-core &intel; &xeon;
- processors <quote>Nocona</quote>, <quote>Irwindale</quote>,
+ <para>The single-core &intel; &xeon; processors
+ <quote>Nocona</quote>, <quote>Irwindale</quote>,
<quote>Potomac</quote>, and <quote>Cranford</quote> have
EM64T support.</para>
</listitem>
@@ -139,7 +143,8 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>All &intel; ¢rino; Duo and ¢rino; Pro platforms</para>
+ <para>All &intel; ¢rino; Duo and ¢rino; Pro
+ platforms</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -149,11 +154,11 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Some &intel; &pentium; 4s and &celeron; Ds using
- the <quote>Prescott</quote> core have EM64T support. See
- the <link xlink:href="http://processorfinder.intel.com">Intel
- Processor Spec Finder</link> for the definitive answer about
- EM64T support in Intel processors.</para>
+ <para>Some &intel; &pentium; 4s and &celeron; Ds using the
+ <quote>Prescott</quote> core have EM64T support. See the
+ <link xlink:href="http://processorfinder.intel.com">Intel
+ Processor Spec Finder</link> for the definitive answer
+ about EM64T support in Intel processors.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -171,21 +176,20 @@
&os;/&arch.i386;, in terms of drivers supported. Generally,
drivers that already function correctly on other 64-bit
platforms should work.</para>
-
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="proc-i386">
<title>i386</title>
<para>&os;/&arch.i386; runs on a wide variety of <quote>IBM PC
- compatible</quote> machines. Due to the wide range of
+ compatible</quote> machines. Due to the wide range of
hardware available for this architecture, it is impossible
to exhaustively list all combinations of equipment supported
by &os;. Nevertheless, some general guidelines are
presented here.</para>
<para>Almost all &i386;-compatible processors with a floating
- point unit are supported. All &intel; processors beginning
+ point unit are supported. All &intel; processors beginning
with the 80486 are supported, including the 80486, &pentium;,
&pentium; Pro, &pentium; II, &pentium; III, &pentium; 4, and
variants thereof, such as the &xeon; and &celeron; processors.
@@ -255,18 +259,20 @@
(DSDT) provided by each machine's BIOS. Some machines have
bad or incomplete DSDTs, which prevents ACPI from functioning
correctly. Replacement DSDTs for some machines can be found
- at the <link xlink:href="http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/index.php">DSDT</link>
- section of the <link xlink:href="http://acpi.sourceforge.net/">ACPI4Linux</link> project
- Web site. &os; can use these DSDTs to override the DSDT
- provided by the BIOS; see the &man.acpi.4; manual page for
- more information.</para>
+ at the <link
+ xlink:href="http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/index.php">DSDT</link>
+ section of the <link
+ xlink:href="http://acpi.sourceforge.net/">ACPI4Linux</link>
+ project Web site. &os; can use these DSDTs to override the
+ DSDT provided by the BIOS; see the &man.acpi.4; manual page
+ for more information.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="proc-powerpc">
<title>powerpc</title>
- <para>All Apple PowerPC machines with built-in USB are supported,
- as well a limited selection of non-Apple machines,
+ <para>All Apple PowerPC machines with built-in USB are
+ supported, as well a limited selection of non-Apple machines,
including KVM on POWER7</para>
<para>SMP is supported on all systems with more than
@@ -277,8 +283,8 @@
<title>sparc64</title>
<para>This section describes the systems currently known to be
- supported by &os; on the Fujitsu &sparc64; and Sun &ultrasparc;
- platforms.</para>
+ supported by &os; on the Fujitsu &sparc64; and Sun
+ &ultrasparc; platforms.</para>
<para>SMP is supported on all systems with more than 1
processor.</para>
@@ -286,10 +292,10 @@
<para>When using the <filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel,
&os;/&arch.sparc64; systems not equipped with a framebuffer
supported by the &man.creator.4; (Sun Creator, Sun Creator3D
- and Sun Elite3D) or &man.machfb.4; (Sun PGX and Sun PGX64
- as well as the ATI Mach64 chips found onboard in for example
- &sun.blade; 100, &sun.blade; 150, &sun.ultra; 5 and &sun.ultra; 10)
- driver must use the serial console.</para>
+ and Sun Elite3D) or &man.machfb.4; (Sun PGX and Sun PGX64 as
+ well as the ATI Mach64 chips found onboard in for example
+ &sun.blade; 100, &sun.blade; 150, &sun.ultra; 5 and
+ &sun.ultra; 10) driver must use the serial console.</para>
<para>If you have a system that is not listed here, it may not
have been tested with &os; &release.current;. We encourage
@@ -434,10 +440,11 @@
</itemizedlist>
<para>The following systems are partially supported by &os;. In
- particular the fiber channel controllers in SBus-based systems are not
- supported. However, it is possible to use these with a SCSI controller
- supported by the &man.esp.4; driver (Sun ESP SCSI, Sun FAS Fast-SCSI
- and Sun FAS366 Fast-Wide SCSI controllers).</para>
+ particular the fiber channel controllers in SBus-based systems
+ are not supported. However, it is possible to use these with
+ a SCSI controller supported by the &man.esp.4; driver (Sun ESP
+ SCSI, Sun FAS Fast-SCSI and Sun FAS366 Fast-Wide SCSI
+ controllers).</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
@@ -449,9 +456,9 @@
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <para>Starting with 7.2-RELEASE, &arch.sparc64; systems based on Sun
- &ultrasparc; III and beyond are also supported by &os;, which includes
- the following known working systems:</para>
+ <para>Starting with 7.2-RELEASE, &arch.sparc64; systems based on
+ Sun &ultrasparc; III and beyond are also supported by &os;,
+ which includes the following known working systems:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
@@ -479,7 +486,8 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>&sun.fire; V215 (support first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE)</para>
+ <para>&sun.fire; V215 (support first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE
+ and 8.1-RELEASE)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -487,7 +495,8 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>&sun.fire; V245 (support first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE)</para>
+ <para>&sun.fire; V245 (support first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE
+ and 8.1-RELEASE)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -500,9 +509,10 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>&sun.fire; V480 (501-6780 and 501-6790 centerplanes only, for
- which support first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE,
- other centerplanes might work beginning with 8.3-RELEASE and 9.0-RELEASE)</para>
+ <para>&sun.fire; V480 (501-6780 and 501-6790 centerplanes
+ only, for which support first appeared in 7.3-RELEASE and
+ 8.1-RELEASE, other centerplanes might work beginning with
+ 8.3-RELEASE and 9.0-RELEASE)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -510,8 +520,9 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>&sun.fire; V890 (support first appeared in 7.4-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE,
- non-mixed &ultrasparc; IV/IV+ CPU-configurations only)</para>
+ <para>&sun.fire; V890 (support first appeared in 7.4-RELEASE
+ and 8.1-RELEASE, non-mixed &ultrasparc; IV/IV+
+ CPU-configurations only)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -528,14 +539,16 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>&sun.fire; V490 (support first appeared in 7.4-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE,
- non-mixed &ultrasparc; IV/IV+ CPU-configurations only)</para>
+ <para>&sun.fire; V490 (support first appeared in 7.4-RELEASE
+ and 8.1-RELEASE, non-mixed &ultrasparc; IV/IV+
+ CPU-configurations only)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <para>Starting with 7.4-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE, &arch.sparc64; systems based on
- Fujitsu &sparc64; V are also supported by &os;, which
- includes the following known working systems:</para>
+ <para>Starting with 7.4-RELEASE and 8.1-RELEASE, &arch.sparc64;
+ systems based on Fujitsu &sparc64; V are also supported by
+ &os;, which includes the following known working
+ systems:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
@@ -543,8 +556,8 @@
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <para>The following Fujitsu &primepower; systems are not tested but
- believed to be also supported by &os;:</para>
+ <para>The following Fujitsu &primepower; systems are not tested
+ but believed to be also supported by &os;:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
@@ -648,7 +661,7 @@
<note>
<para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] Booting from these
- controllers is supported. EISA adapters are not
+ controllers is supported. EISA adapters are not
supported.</para>
</note>
@@ -678,7 +691,7 @@
<note>
<para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] Booting from these
- controllers is supported. EISA adapters are not
+ controllers is supported. EISA adapters are not
supported.</para>
</note>
@@ -727,9 +740,9 @@
processor target devices and CD-ROM drives. WORM devices that
support CD-ROM commands are supported for read-only access by
the CD-ROM drivers (such as &man.cd.4;). WORM/CD-R/CD-RW
- writing support is provided by &man.cdrecord.1;, which is a
- part of the <package>sysutils/cdrtools</package> port in the Ports
- Collection.</para>
+ writing support is provided by &man.cdrecord.1;, which is
+ a part of the <package>sysutils/cdrtools</package> port in the
+ Ports Collection.</para>
<para>The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this
time:</para>
@@ -939,8 +952,8 @@
4965AGN IEEE 802.11n PCI network adapters
(&man.iwn.4; driver)</para>
- <para>[&arch.i386;, &arch.amd64;] Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g
- PCI network adapters (&man.malo.4; driver)</para>
+ <para>[&arch.i386;, &arch.amd64;] Marvell Libertas IEEE
+ 802.11b/g PCI network adapters (&man.malo.4; driver)</para>
<para>Marvell 88W8363 IEEE 802.11n wireless network
adapters (&man.mwl.4; driver)</para>
@@ -1059,12 +1072,13 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] Avlab Technology, PCI IO 2S
- and PCI IO 4S</para>
+ <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] Avlab Technology, PCI IO
+ 2S and PCI IO 4S</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] Comtrol RocketPort 550</para>
+ <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] Comtrol RocketPort
+ 550</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -1134,7 +1148,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] SIIG Cyber 4S PCI
- 16C550/16C650/16C850</para>
+ 16C550/16C650/16C850</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -1258,8 +1272,9 @@
</note>
<note>
- <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;]
- USB Bluetooth adapters can be found in <link linkend="bluetooth">Bluetooth</link> section.</para>
+ <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] USB Bluetooth adapters can
+ be found in <link linkend="bluetooth">Bluetooth</link>
+ section.</para>
</note>
&hwlist.ohci;
@@ -1272,7 +1287,8 @@
<para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] Hubs</para>
- <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] Keyboards (&man.ukbd.4; driver)</para>
+ <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] Keyboards (&man.ukbd.4;
+ driver)</para>
<para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] Miscellaneous</para>
@@ -1302,7 +1318,8 @@
&hwlist.umodem;
- <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] Mice (&man.ums.4; driver)</para>
+ <para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] Mice (&man.ums.4;
+ driver)</para>
&hwlist.ulpt;
@@ -1376,7 +1393,8 @@
<note>
<para>Information regarding specific video cards and
compatibility with <application>Xorg</application> can be
- found at <uri xlink:href="http://www.x.org/">http://www.x.org/</uri>.</para>
+ found at <uri
+ xlink:href="http://www.x.org/">http://www.x.org/</uri>.</para>
</note>
<para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] Keyboards including:</para>
@@ -1426,7 +1444,8 @@
<note>
<para>&man.moused.8; has more information on using pointing
devices with &os;. Information on using pointing devices
- with <application>Xorg</application> can be found at <uri xlink:href="http://www.x.org/">http://www.x.org/</uri>.</para>
+ with <application>Xorg</application> can be found at <uri
+ xlink:href="http://www.x.org/">http://www.x.org/</uri>.</para>
</note>
<para>[&arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;] <quote>PC standard</quote>
@@ -1452,9 +1471,9 @@
</itemizedlist>
<para>[&arch.i386;] Xilinx XC6200-based reconfigurable hardware
- cards compatible with the HOT1 from <link xlink:href="http://www.vcc.com/">Virtual Computers</link> (xrpu
- driver).</para>
-
+ cards compatible with the HOT1 from <link
+ xlink:href="http://www.vcc.com/">Virtual Computers</link>
+ (xrpu driver).</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
</article>
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/12.0R/readme/readme.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/12.0R/readme/readme.xml Thu Oct 5 20:33:00 2017 (r51061)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/releases/12.0R/readme/readme.xml Thu Oct 5 21:13:43 2017 (r51062)
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN" "../share/xml/release.ent">
%release;
]>
-<!--
+<!--
Local Variables:
mode: sgml
sgml-indent-data: t
@@ -12,12 +12,16 @@
sgml-always-quote-attributes: t
End:
-->
-<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0">
- <info><title>&os; &release.current; README</title>
-
+<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+ xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0">
- <author><orgname>The &os; Project</orgname></author>
+ <info>
+ <title>&os; &release.current; README</title>
+ <author>
+ <orgname>The &os; Project</orgname>
+ </author>
+
<pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>
<copyright>
@@ -37,7 +41,10 @@
<year>2013</year>
<year>2014</year>
<year>2015</year>
- <holder role="mailto:[email protected]">The &os; Documentation Project</holder>
+ <year>2016</year>
+ <year>2017</year>
+ <holder role="mailto:[email protected]">The &os; Documentation
+ Project</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
@@ -48,29 +55,30 @@
&tm-attrib.general;
</legalnotice>
- <abstract>
- <para>This document gives a brief introduction to &os;
- &release.current;. It includes some information on how to
- obtain &os;, a listing of various ways to contact the &os;
- Project, and pointers to some other sources of
- information.</para>
- </abstract>
+ <abstract>
+ <para>This document gives a brief introduction to &os;
+ &release.current;. It includes some information on how to
+ obtain &os;, a listing of various ways to contact the &os;
+ Project, and pointers to some other sources of
+ information.</para>
+ </abstract>
</info>
<sect1 xml:id="intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
- <para>This distribution is a &release.type; of &os; &release.current;, the
- latest point along the &release.branch; branch.</para>
+ <para>This distribution is a &release.type; of &os;
+ &release.current;, the latest point along the &release.branch;
+ branch.</para>
<sect2>
<title>About &os;</title>
<para>&os; is an operating system based on 4.4 BSD Lite for
- AMD64 and Intel EM64T based PC hardware (&arch.amd64;),
- Intel, AMD, Cyrix or NexGen <quote>x86</quote> based PC hardware (&arch.i386;),
- and &ultrasparc; machines (&arch.sparc64;). Versions
- for the &arm; (&arch.arm;), &mips; (&arch.mips;), and
+ AMD64 and Intel EM64T based PC hardware (&arch.amd64;), Intel,
+ AMD, Cyrix or NexGen <quote>x86</quote> based PC hardware
+ (&arch.i386;), and &ultrasparc; machines (&arch.sparc64;).
+ Versions for the &arm; (&arch.arm;), &mips; (&arch.mips;), and
&powerpc; (&arch.powerpc;) architectures are currently under
development as well. &os; works with a wide variety of
peripherals and configurations and can be used for everything
@@ -87,61 +95,63 @@
<para>A large collection of third-party ported software (the
<quote>Ports Collection</quote>) is also provided to make it
- easy to obtain and install all your favorite traditional &unix;
- utilities for &os;. Each <quote>port</quote> consists of a
- set of scripts to retrieve, configure, build, and install a
- piece of software, with a single command. Over &os.numports;
- ports, from editors to programming languages to graphical
- applications, make &os; a powerful and comprehensive operating
- environment that extends far beyond what's provided by many
- commercial versions of &unix;. Most ports are also available as
- pre-compiled <quote>packages</quote>, which can be quickly
- installed from the installation program.</para>
+ easy to obtain and install all your favorite traditional
+ &unix; utilities for &os;. Each <quote>port</quote> consists
+ of a set of scripts to retrieve, configure, build, and install
+ a piece of software, with a single command. Over
+ &os.numports; ports, from editors to programming languages to
+ graphical applications, make &os; a powerful and comprehensive
+ operating environment that extends far beyond what's provided
+ by many commercial versions of &unix;. Most ports are also
+ available as pre-compiled <quote>packages</quote>, which can
+ be quickly installed from the installation program.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Target Audience</title>
- <para releasetype="current">This &release.type; is aimed primarily at early adopters
- and various other users who want to get involved with the
- ongoing development of &os;. While the &os; development team
- tries its best to ensure that each &release.type; works as
- advertised, &release.branch; is very much a
- work-in-progress.</para>
+ <para releasetype="current">This &release.type; is aimed
+ primarily at early adopters and various other users who want
+ to get involved with the ongoing development of &os;. While
+ the &os; development team tries its best to ensure that each
+ &release.type; works as advertised, &release.branch; is very
+ much a work-in-progress.</para>
- <para releasetype="current">The basic requirements for using this &release.type; are
- technical proficiency with &os; and an understanding of the
- ongoing development process of &os; &release.branch; (as
- discussed on the &a.current;).</para>
+ <para releasetype="current">The basic requirements for using
+ this &release.type; are technical proficiency with &os; and an
+ understanding of the ongoing development process of &os;
+ &release.branch; (as discussed on the &a.current;).</para>
- <para releasetype="current">For those more interested in doing business with &os; than
- in experimenting with new &os; technology, formal releases
- (such as &release.prev.stable;) are frequently more appropriate.
- Releases undergo a period of testing and quality assurance
- checking to ensure high reliability and dependability.</para>
+ <para releasetype="current">For those more interested in doing
+ business with &os; than in experimenting with new &os;
+ technology, formal releases (such as &release.prev.stable;)
+ are frequently more appropriate. Releases undergo a period of
+ testing and quality assurance checking to ensure high
+ reliability and dependability.</para>
- <para releasetype="snapshot">This &release.type; is aimed primarily at early adopters
- and various other users who want to get involved with the
- ongoing development of &os;. While the &os; development team
- tries its best to ensure that each &release.type; works as
- advertised, &release.branch; is very much a
- work-in-progress.</para>
+ <para releasetype="snapshot">This &release.type; is aimed
+ primarily at early adopters and various other users who want
+ to get involved with the ongoing development of &os;. While
+ the &os; development team tries its best to ensure that each
+ &release.type; works as advertised, &release.branch; is very
+ much a work-in-progress.</para>
- <para releasetype="snapshot">The basic requirements for using this &release.type; are
- technical proficiency with &os; and an understanding of the
- ongoing development process of &os; &release.branch; (as
- discussed on the &a.current;).</para>
+ <para releasetype="snapshot">The basic requirements for using
+ this &release.type; are technical proficiency with &os; and an
+ understanding of the ongoing development process of &os;
+ &release.branch; (as discussed on the &a.current;).</para>
- <para releasetype="snapshot">For those more interested in doing business with &os; than
- in experimenting with new &os; technology, formal releases
- (such as &release.prev.stable;) are frequently more appropriate.
- Releases undergo a period of testing and quality assurance
- checking to ensure high reliability and dependability.</para>
+ <para releasetype="snapshot">For those more interested in doing
+ business with &os; than in experimenting with new &os;
+ technology, formal releases (such as &release.prev.stable;)
+ are frequently more appropriate. Releases undergo a period of
+ testing and quality assurance checking to ensure high
+ reliability and dependability.</para>
- <para releasetype="release">This &release.type; of &os; is suitable for all users. It
- has undergone a period of testing and quality assurance
- checking to ensure the highest reliability and
- dependability.</para>
+ <para releasetype="release">This &release.type; of &os; is
+ suitable for all users. It has undergone a period of testing
+ and quality assurance checking to ensure the highest
+ reliability and dependability.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
@@ -165,16 +175,18 @@
Collection, or other extra material.</para>
<para>A list of the CDROM and DVD publishers known to the
- project are listed in the <link xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
- &os;</quote></link> appendix to the Handbook.</para>
+ project are listed in the <link
+ xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/mirrors.html"><quote>Obtaining
+ &os;</quote></link> appendix to the Handbook.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>FTP</title>
<para>You can use FTP to retrieve &os; and any or all of its
- optional packages from <uri xlink:href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/</uri>, which is the official
- &os; release site, or any of its
+ optional packages from <uri
+ xlink:href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/</uri>,
+ which is the official &os; release site, or any of its
<quote>mirrors</quote>.</para>
<para>Lists of locations that mirror &os; can be found in the
@@ -186,8 +198,9 @@
<para>Additional mirror sites are always welcome. Contact
<email>[email protected]</email> for more details on
becoming an official mirror site. You can also find useful
- information for mirror sites at the <link xlink:href="&url.articles.hubs;/">Mirroring
- &os;</link> article.</para>
+ information for mirror sites at the <link
+ xlink:href="&url.articles.hubs;/">Mirroring &os;</link>
+ article.</para>
<para>Mirrors generally contain the ISO images generally used to
create a CDROM of a &os; release. They usually also contain
@@ -207,16 +220,18 @@
<para>For any questions or general technical support issues,
please send mail to the &a.questions;.</para>
- <para>If you're tracking the &release.branch; development efforts, you
- <emphasis>must</emphasis> join the &a.current;, in order to
- keep abreast of recent developments and changes that may
- affect the way you use and maintain the system.</para>
+ <para>If you're tracking the &release.branch; development
+ efforts, you <emphasis>must</emphasis> join the &a.current;,
+ in order to keep abreast of recent developments and changes
+ that may affect the way you use and maintain the
+ system.</para>
- <para>Being a largely-volunteer effort, the &os;
- Project is always happy to have extra hands willing to help—there are already far more desired enhancements than
- there is time to implement them. To contact the developers on
- technical matters, or with offers of help, please send mail to
- the &a.hackers;.</para>
+ <para>Being a largely-volunteer effort, the &os; Project is
+ always happy to have extra hands willing to help—there
+ are already far more desired enhancements than there is time
+ to implement them. To contact the developers on technical
+ matters, or with offers of help, please send mail to the
+ &a.hackers;.</para>
<para>Please note that these mailing lists can experience
<emphasis>significant</emphasis> amounts of traffic. If you
@@ -225,13 +240,15 @@
preferable to subscribe instead to the &a.announce;.</para>
<para>All of the mailing lists can be freely joined by anyone
- wishing to do so. Visit the <link xlink:href="&url.base;/mailman/listinfo">
- &os; Mailman Info Page</link>. This will give you more
- information on joining the various lists, accessing archives,
- etc. There are a number of mailing lists targeted at special
- interest groups not mentioned here; more information can be
- obtained either from the Mailman pages or the <link xlink:href="&url.base;/support.html#mailing-list">mailing
- lists section</link> of the &os; Web site.</para>
+ wishing to do so. Visit the <link
+ xlink:href="&url.base;/mailman/listinfo">&os; Mailman Info
+ Page</link>. This will give you more information on joining
+ the various lists, accessing archives, etc. There are
+ a number of mailing lists targeted at special interest groups
+ not mentioned here; more information can be obtained either
+ from the Mailman pages or the <link
+ xlink:href="&url.base;/support.html#mailing-list">mailing
+ lists section</link> of the &os; Web site.</para>
<important>
<para>Do <emphasis>not</emphasis> send email to the lists
@@ -285,48 +302,46 @@
provided in various formats. Most distributions will include
both ASCII text (<filename>.TXT</filename>) and HTML
(<filename>.HTM</filename>) renditions. Some distributions
- may also include other formats such as Portable Document Format
- (<filename>.PDF</filename>).
+ may also include other formats such as Portable Document
+ Format (<filename>.PDF</filename>).</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para><filename>README.TXT</filename>: This file, which
- gives some general information about &os; as well as
- some cursory notes about obtaining a
- distribution.</para>
- </listitem>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><filename>README.TXT</filename>: This file, which
+ gives some general information about &os; as well as some
+ cursory notes about obtaining a distribution.</para>
+ </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><filename>RELNOTES.TXT</filename>: The release
- notes, showing what's new and different in &os;
- &release.current; compared to the previous release (&os;
- &release.prev;).</para>
- </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><filename>RELNOTES.TXT</filename>: The release notes,
+ showing what's new and different in &os; &release.current;
+ compared to the previous release (&os;
+ &release.prev;).</para>
+ </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><filename>HARDWARE.TXT</filename>: The hardware
- compatibility list, showing devices with which &os; has
- been tested and is known to work.</para>
- </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><filename>HARDWARE.TXT</filename>: The hardware
+ compatibility list, showing devices with which &os; has
+ been tested and is known to work.</para>
+ </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><filename>ERRATA.TXT</filename>: Release errata.
- Late-breaking, post-release information can be found in
- this file, which is principally applicable to releases
- (as opposed to snapshots). It is important to consult
- this file before installing a release of &os;, as it
- contains the latest information on problems which have
- been found and fixed since the release was
- created.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><filename>ERRATA.TXT</filename>: Release errata.
+ Late-breaking, post-release information can be found in
+ this file, which is principally applicable to releases (as
+ opposed to snapshots). It is important to consult this
+ file before installing a release of &os;, as it contains
+ the latest information on problems which have been found
+ and fixed since the release was created.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
<para>On platforms that support &man.bsdinstall.8; (currently
- &arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;, and &arch.sparc64;), these documents are generally available via the
- Documentation menu during installation. Once the system is
- installed, you can revisit this menu by re-running the
- &man.bsdinstall.8; utility.</para>
+ &arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;, and &arch.sparc64;), these
+ documents are generally available via the Documentation menu
+ during installation. Once the system is installed, you can
+ revisit this menu by re-running the &man.bsdinstall.8;
+ utility.</para>
<note>
<para>It is extremely important to read the errata for any
@@ -337,8 +352,9 @@
other copies are kept updated on the Internet and should be
consulted as the <quote>current errata</quote> for this
release. These other copies of the errata are located at
- <uri xlink:href="&url.base;/releases/">&url.base;/releases/</uri> (as
- well as any sites which keep up-to-date mirrors of this
+ <uri
+ xlink:href="&url.base;/releases/">&url.base;/releases/</uri>
+ (as well as any sites which keep up-to-date mirrors of this
location).</para>
</note>
</sect2>
@@ -346,50 +362,54 @@
<sect2>
<title>Manual Pages</title>
- <para>As with almost all &unix; like operating systems, &os; comes
- with a set of on-line manual pages, accessed through the
- &man.man.1; command or through the <link xlink:href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi">hypertext manual
- pages gateway</link> on the &os; Web site. In general, the
- manual pages provide information on the different commands and
- APIs available to the &os; user.</para>
+ <para>As with almost all &unix; like operating systems, &os;
+ comes with a set of on-line manual pages, accessed through the
+ &man.man.1; command or through the <link
+ xlink:href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi">hypertext
+ manual pages gateway</link> on the &os; Web site. In
+ general, the manual pages provide information on the different
+ commands and APIs available to the &os; user.</para>
<para>In some cases, manual pages are written to give
information on particular topics. Notable examples of such
- manual pages are &man.tuning.7; (a guide to performance tuning),
- &man.security.7; (an introduction to &os; security), and
- &man.style.9; (a style guide to kernel coding).</para>
+ manual pages are &man.tuning.7; (a guide to performance
+ tuning), &man.security.7; (an introduction to &os; security),
+ and &man.style.9; (a style guide to kernel coding).</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Books and Articles</title>
<para>Two highly-useful collections of &os;-related information,
- maintained by the &os; Project,
- are the &os; Handbook and &os; FAQ (Frequently Asked
- Questions document). On-line versions of the <link xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">Handbook</link>
- and <link xlink:href="&url.books.faq;/">FAQ</link>
- are always available from the <link xlink:href="&url.base;/docs.html">&os; Documentation
- page</link> or its mirrors. If you install the
+ maintained by the &os; Project, are the &os; Handbook and &os;
+ FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions document). On-line versions
+ of the <link
+ xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/">Handbook</link> and <link
+ xlink:href="&url.books.faq;/">FAQ</link> are always
+ available from the <link
+ xlink:href="&url.base;/docs.html">&os; Documentation
+ page</link> or its mirrors. If you install the
<filename>doc</filename> distribution set, you can use a Web
browser to read the Handbook and FAQ locally. In particular,
note that the Handbook contains a step-by-step guide to
installing &os;.</para>
<para>A number of on-line books and articles, also maintained by
- the &os; Project, cover more-specialized, &os;-related topics.
- This material spans a wide range of topics, from effective use
- of the mailing lists, to dual-booting &os; with other
- operating systems, to guidelines for new committers. Like the
- Handbook and FAQ, these documents are available from the &os;
- Documentation Page or in the <filename>doc</filename>
- distribution set.</para>
+ the &os; Project, cover more-specialized, &os;-related topics.
+ This material spans a wide range of topics, from effective use
+ of the mailing lists, to dual-booting &os; with other
+ operating systems, to guidelines for new committers. Like the
+ Handbook and FAQ, these documents are available from the &os;
+ Documentation Page or in the <filename>doc</filename>
+ distribution set.</para>
<para>A listing of other books and documents about &os; can be
- found in the <link xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/bibliography.html">bibliography</link>
- of the &os; Handbook. Because of &os;'s strong &unix; heritage,
- many other articles and books written for &unix; systems are
- applicable as well, some of which are also listed in the
- bibliography.</para>
+ found in the <link
+ xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/bibliography.html">bibliography</link>
+ of the &os; Handbook. Because of &os;'s strong &unix;
+ heritage, many other articles and books written for &unix;
+ systems are applicable as well, some of which are also listed
+ in the bibliography.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
@@ -398,10 +418,11 @@
<para>&os; represents the cumulative work of many hundreds, if not
thousands, of individuals from around the world who have worked
- countless hours to bring about this &release.type;. For a
- complete list of &os; developers and contributors, please see
- <link xlink:href="&url.articles.contributors;/"><quote>Contributors
- to &os;</quote></link> on the &os; Web site or any of its
+ countless hours to bring about this &release.type;. For
+ a complete list of &os; developers and contributors, please see
+ <link
+ xlink:href="&url.articles.contributors;/"><quote>Contributors
+ to &os;</quote></link> on the &os; Web site or any of its
mirrors.</para>
<para>Special thanks also go to the many thousands of &os; users
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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
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<copyright>
- <year>2016</year>
+ <year>2017</year>
<holder role="mailto:[email protected]">The &os; Documentation
Project</holder>
</copyright>
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