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authorgjb <gjb@FreeBSD.org>2014-08-26 23:58:54 +0000
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Fix the stable/10 hardware/article.xml to conform to
FDP style conventions. Fix a few rendering issues, while here. Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/readme/article.xml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/readme/article.xml
index 30cde7f..bdae743 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/readme/article.xml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/readme/article.xml
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook XML V5.0-Based Extension//EN"
- "../../../share/xml/freebsd50.dtd" [
+ "../../../share/xml/freebsd50.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN" "release.ent">
%release;
]>
-<!--
+<!--
Local Variables:
mode: sgml
sgml-indent-data: t
@@ -12,9 +12,10 @@
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">
+ <info>
+ <title>&os; &release.current; README</title>
<author><orgname>The &os; Project</orgname></author>
@@ -36,7 +37,8 @@
<year>2012</year>
<year>2013</year>
<year>2014</year>
- <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder>
+ <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation
+ Project</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
@@ -47,31 +49,32 @@
&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;),
- Intel Itanium Processor based computers (&arch.ia64;),
- NEC PC-9801/9821 series PCs and compatibles (&arch.pc98;),
- 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;), Intel Itanium Processor based computers
+ (&arch.ia64;), NEC PC-9801/9821 series PCs and compatibles
+ (&arch.pc98;), 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
@@ -88,61 +91,63 @@
<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">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.stable;).</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">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.stable;).</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="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.stable;).</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">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.stable;).</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>
</sect2>
</sect1>
@@ -166,16 +171,18 @@
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
@@ -187,8 +194,9 @@
<para>Additional mirror sites are always welcome. Contact
<email>freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.org</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
@@ -208,16 +216,17 @@
<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
+ <para>If tracking the &release.branch; development efforts, you
<emphasis>must</emphasis> join the &a.stable;, 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&mdash;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&mdash;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
@@ -226,13 +235,15 @@
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
@@ -250,22 +261,24 @@
course even more welcome.</para>
<para>The preferred method to submit bug reports from a machine
- with Internet connectivity is to use the <application>Bugzilla</application>
- bug tracker.
+ with Internet connectivity is to use the
+ <application>Bugzilla</application> bug tracker.
<quote>Problem Reports</quote> (PRs) submitted in this way
will be filed and their progress tracked; the &os; developers
will do their best to respond to all reported bugs as soon as
- possible. <link xlink:href="https://bugs.FreeBSD.org/search/">A list
- of all active PRs</link> is available on the &os; Web site;
- this list is useful to see what potential problems other users
- have encountered.</para>
+ possible. <link
+ xlink:href="https://bugs.FreeBSD.org/search/">A list of all
+ active PRs</link> is available on the &os; Web site; this
+ list is useful to see what potential problems other users have
+ encountered.</para>
<para>Note that &man.send-pr.1; is deprecated.</para>
- <para>For more information, <link xlink:href="&url.articles.problem-reports;/"><quote>Writing
- &os; Problem Reports</quote></link>, available on the &os; Web
- site, has a number of helpful hints on writing and submitting
- effective problem reports.</para>
+ <para>For more information, <link
+ xlink:href="&url.articles.problem-reports;/"><quote>Writing
+ &os; Problem Reports</quote></link>, available on the &os;
+ Web site, has a number of helpful hints on writing and
+ submitting effective problem reports.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
@@ -284,47 +297,47 @@
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>).
-
- <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>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>
+ 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>
+
+ <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>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;, &arch.ia64;, &arch.pc98;, 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
+ &arch.amd64;, &arch.i386;, &arch.ia64;, &arch.pc98;, 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>
@@ -336,8 +349,9 @@
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>
@@ -345,50 +359,54 @@
<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>
@@ -397,10 +415,11 @@
<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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