minor update to handbook introduction chapter

Ben Kaduk minimarmot at gmail.com
Fri Jun 29 04:25:45 UTC 2007


Is this worth send-pr-ing?

en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml

--- chapter.sgml.orig   2007-06-28 22:50:50.000000000 -0500
+++ chapter.sgml        2007-06-28 22:57:53.000000000 -0500
@@ -91,8 +91,8 @@
        <indexterm><primary>TCP/IP networking</primary></indexterm>
        <listitem>
          <para>Strong <emphasis>TCP/IP networking</emphasis> with
-           support for industry standards such as SLIP, PPP, NFS, DHCP,
-           and NIS.  This means that your FreeBSD machine can
+           support for industry standards such as DHCP, NFS, NIS, PPP,
+           and SLIP.  This means that your FreeBSD machine can
            interoperate easily with other systems as well as act as an
            enterprise server, providing vital functions such as NFS
            (remote file access) and email services or putting your
@@ -868,7 +868,7 @@
         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,
+      <para>Since our release of FreeBSD 2.0 in late 1994, the
performance,
         feature set, and stability of FreeBSD has improved dramatically.
        <!-- XXX is the rest of this paragraph still true ? -->
         The largest change is a revamped virtual memory system with a merged

SLIP was modern in 4.3 BSD -- perhaps we no longer need to have it
heading the list of industry standards we support?

``late 94'' is just bad grammar -- either use the full form 1994 (as
above), or add an apostrophe.

-Ben Kaduk



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