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authorJim Mock <jim@FreeBSD.org>2000-01-13 00:09:02 +0000
committerJim Mock <jim@FreeBSD.org>2000-01-13 00:09:02 +0000
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Fix various typos/grammatical errors
PR: 16050 Submitted by: Bob Johnson <bobj@atlantic.net>
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=6368
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--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
<!--
The FreeBSD Documentation Project
- $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml,v 1.22 1999/12/04 06:19:12 jhb Exp $
+ $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml,v 1.23 2000/01/09 13:23:17 phantom Exp $
-->
<chapter id="introduction">
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>A full complement of <emphasis>C</emphasis>,
- <emphasis>C++</emphasis>, <emphasis>Fortran</emphasis>
+ <emphasis>C++</emphasis>, <emphasis>Fortran</emphasis>, and
<emphasis>Perl</emphasis> development tools.
Many additional languages for advanced research
and development are also available in the ports and packages
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@
we were in unanimous agreement that something had to be done and decided
to try and assist Bill by providing this interim &ldquo;cleanup&rdquo;
snapshot. Those plans came to a rude halt when Bill Jolitz suddenly
- decided to withdraw his sanction from the project and without any clear
+ decided to withdraw his sanction from the project without any clear
indication of what would be done instead.</para>
<para>It did not take us long to decide that the goal remained worthwhile,
@@ -508,10 +508,10 @@
<title>About the Current Release</title>
<para>FreeBSD is a freely available, full source 4.4BSD-Lite2 based release
- for Intel i386/i486/Pentium/PentiumPro/Pentium II (or compatible) and DEC
- Alpha based computer systems. It is based primarily on software from U.C.
- Berkeley's CSRG group, with some enhancements from NetBSD, OpenBSD, 386BSD,
- and the Free Software Foundation.</para>
+ for Intel i386/i486/Pentium/PentiumPro/Celeron/Pentium II/Pentium III (or
+ compatible) and DEC Alpha based computer systems. It is based primarily
+ on software from U.C. Berkeley's CSRG group, with some enhancements from
+ NetBSD, OpenBSD, 386BSD, and the Free Software Foundation.</para>
<para>Since our release of FreeBSD 2.0 in late 94, the performance,
feature set, and stability of FreeBSD has improved dramatically. The
@@ -539,14 +539,13 @@
easier for us to update ports, and greatly reduces the disk space
demands made by the older 1.0 ports collection. To compile a port, you
simply change to the directory of the program you wish to install, type
- <command>make all</command> followed by <command>make install</command>
- after successful compilation and let the system do the rest. The full
- original distribution for each port you build is retrieved dynamically
- off the CDROM or a local ftp site, so you need only enough disk space to
- build the ports you want. (Almost) every port is also provided as a
- pre-compiled &ldquo;package&rdquo; which can be installed with a simple
- command (pkg_add) by those who do not wish to compile their own ports
- from source.</para>
+ <command>make install</command>, and let the system do the rest. The
+ full original distribution for each port you build is retrieved
+ dynamically off the CDROM or a local ftp site, so you need only enough
+ disk space to build the ports you want. (Almost) every port is also
+ provided as a pre-compiled &ldquo;package&rdquo; which can be installed
+ with a simple command (pkg_add) by those who do not wish to compile
+ their own ports from source.</para>
<para>A number of additional documents which you may find very helpful in
the process of installing and using FreeBSD may now also be found in the