* Add a section about improvements that have been made since the 2nd

  Printed Edition.

* Update the section about improvements between the first and second
  editions to refer to the second edition in the past tense.

Obtained from:	FreeBSD Mall, Inc. 3rd Edition FreeBSD Handbook

1 files changed, 92 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/preface/preface.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/preface/preface.sgml
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--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/preface/preface.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/preface/preface.sgml
@@ -25,12 +25,98 @@
   <para>For a list of additional sources of information, please see <xref
     linkend="bibliography">.</para>
 
+  <bridgehead id="preface-changes-from2" renderas=sect1>Changes from the
+  Second Edition</bridgehead>
+
+  <para>This third edition is the culmination of over two years of
+      work by the dedicated members of the FreeBSD Documentation
+      Project.  The following are the major changes in this new
+      edition:</para>
+
+  <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+	<para><xref linkend="config-tuning">, Configuration and
+	  Tuning, has been expanded with new information about the
+	  ACPI power and resource management, the cron system utility,
+	  and more kernel tuning options.</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+	<para><xref linkend="security">, Security, has been expanded with
+	  new information about virtual private networks (VPNs), file
+	  system access control lists (ACLs), and security
+	  advisories.</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+	<para><xref linkend="mac">, Mandatory Access Control (MAC), is
+	  a new chapter with this edition.  It explains what MAC is
+	  and how this mechanism can be used to secure a FreeBSD
+	  system.</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+	<para><xref linkend="disks">, Storage, has been expanded with
+	  new information about USB storage devices, file system
+	  snapshots, file system quotas, file and network backed
+	  filesystems, and encrypted disk partitions.</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+	<para><xref linkend="vinum-vinum">, Vinum, is a new chapter
+	with this edition.  It describes how to use Vinum, a logical
+	volume manager which provides device-independent logical
+	disks, and software RAID-0, RAID-1 and RAID-5.</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+	<para>A troubleshooting section has been added to <xref
+	  linkend="ppp-and-slip">, PPP and SLIP.</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+	<para><xref linkend="mail">, Electronic Mail, has been
+	  expanded with new information about using alternative
+	  transport agents, SMTP authentication, UUCP, fetchmail,
+	  procmail, and other advanced topics.</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+	<para><xref linkend="network-servers">, Network Servers, is
+	  all new with this edition.  This chapter includes
+	  information about setting up the Apache HTTP Server, FTPd,
+	  and setting up a server for Microsoft Windows clients with
+	  Samba.  Some sections from <xref
+	  linkend="advanced-networking">, Advanced Networking, were
+	  moved here to improve the presentation.</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+	<para><xref linkend="advanced-networking">, Advanced
+	  Networking, has been expanded with new information about
+	  using Bluetooth devices with FreeBSD, setting up wireless
+	  networks, and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
+	  networking.</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>A glossary has been added to provide a central location
+	  for the definitions of technical terms used throughout the
+	  book.</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
+        <para>A number of aesthetic improvements have been made to the
+          tables and figures throughout the book.</para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+
   <bridgehead id="preface-changes" renderas=sect1>Changes from the
   First Edition</bridgehead>
 
-    <para>This second edition is the culmination of over two years of
+    <para>The second edition was the culmination of over two years of
       work by the dedicated members of the FreeBSD Documentation
-      Project.  The following are the major changes in this new
+      Project.  The following were the major changes in this
       edition:</para>
 
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@@ -506,7 +592,10 @@
     number of improvements to the print-output infrastructure and to add
     additional chapters to the text.  This work culminated in the
     publication of the second printed edition in November 2001 (ISBN
-    1-57176-303-1).</para>
+    1-57176-303-1).  In 2003-2004, <ulink
+    url="http://www.freebsdmall.com">FreeBSD Mall, Inc</ulink>, paid
+    several contributors to improve the Handbook in preparation for
+    the third printed edition.</para>
 
 </preface>