www/en/advocacy/myths.sgml is full of broken links
Kövesdán Gábor
gabor.kovesdan at t-hosting.hu
Thu Dec 29 10:12:59 PST 2005
Pav Lucistnik wrote:
>Kövesdán Gábor píše v čt 29. 12. 2005 v 14:31 +0100:
>
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I've started out to translate the FreeBSD webpage to Hungarian, and I've
>>found a lot of dead links in myths.sgml. I've tried to find a new
>>location for these documents but no success. If we remove all of those
>>links from the part about clustering it will be almost empty, so I
>>haven't send a PR. I wrote this to discuss what to do with that page. We
>>may look for another good articles about clustering. I'd suggest mention
>>CARP and place a link about CARP here, for example:
>>http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/carp.html.
>>I hope You have another good ideas.
>>
>>
>
>All broken links have to be either fixed or removed. There's just no
>point in keeping them.
>
>Regarding the clustering section, well, is Tom Rhodes' article still
>coming "in late 2002"?
>
>a.out section is awfully irrelevant today.
>
>This page needs a good overhaul. If you can fill it with some fresh and
>relevant content, it would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
Here is a patch attached:
- Eliminate the deprecated a.out section
- Remove the broken link to Jordan Hubbard's article
- Remove broken links from clustering section and fill that in with new
interesting links
- Fix link to commercial support
- Mention DragonflyBSD as a derivative project
- Update the description about architecture ports
- Mention MAC and GEOM Frameworks as great new features in the codebase
- Remove the test about BSDi, since it doesn't exist any more
- Remove the text about Tom Rhodes' future article :)
- Mention freebsd-cluster@ instead
- Fix a typo (no whitespace before SunOS)
- Fix the current ports number and make the description about Linux
compatibility more relevant
- Mention 32-bit compatibility, too
Please also take a look at www/91054, it should be committed, too.
Regards,
Gabor Kovesdan
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--- myths.sgml.orig Thu Dec 29 17:42:18 2005
+++ myths.sgml Thu Dec 29 18:52:03 2005
@@ -52,9 +52,6 @@
<li><a href="#applications">There are no applications for
*BSD</a></li>
- <li><a href="#aout">*BSD uses the a.out executable format, which is
- outdated technology</a></li>
-
<li><a href="#beats">*BSD is better than (some other system)</a></li>
<li><a href="#beaten">(some other system) is better than *BSD</a></li>
@@ -133,9 +130,6 @@
never had to ask for them, they were freely given.</i></p></li>
</ul>
- <p>Also, see this article written by Jordan Hubbard in Performance
- Computing, titled <a href="http://www.performance-computing.com/features/9810of1.shtml">What is FreeBSD?</a></p>
-
<hr noshade size="1">
<h3><a name="own-distro">You</a> cannot make your own distributions
@@ -156,7 +150,8 @@
them proprietary that they can stay in business).</p>
<p>The OpenBSD project started as a spinoff from the NetBSD project, and
- has since evolved its own distinctive approach.</p>
+ has since evolved its own distinctive approach. Similarly DragonflyBSD
+ derives from FreeBSD 4.x.</p>
<hr noshade size="1">
@@ -198,11 +193,22 @@
wcarchive.cdrom.com juggle thousands (literally, more than 10,000)
simultaneous FTP connections without falling over.</p></li>
- <li><p>Architecture ports: Ports of *BSD are under way or already exist
- on many other architectures, including UltraSPARC, Alpha, and PowerPC.
- NetBSD and OpenBSD both have more architecture ports than FreeBSD, which
- is, at the time of writing, running on i386, Alpha and
- UltraSPARC.</p></li>
+ <li><p>Architecture ports: FreeBSD supports seven main architectures
+ currently: alpha, amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, ppc and sparc64.
+ There are also ongoing works to port the project for further
+ architectures. See the <a href="../platforms/index.html">
+ Supported Platforms</a> page for more information.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p>MAC Framework: FreeBSD supports Mandatory Access Control, which
+ are normally possessed by trusted operating systems available for high
+ price. FreeBSD gives you advanced security for free! The
+ <a href="http://www.trustedbsd.org">TrustedBSD Project</a>
+ provides further trusted operating system extensions.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p>GEOM classess: GEOM is a modular disk framework that lets
+ you concatenate, mirror, stripe, or encrypt disks. It is rich
+ in functionality and keep your data safe.
+
</ul>
<hr noshade size="1">
@@ -217,9 +223,6 @@
sets. FreeBSD and NetBSD both integrate security fixes first discovered
by the OpenBSD team.</p>
- <p>This cooperation extends to the commercial company BSDi, who graciously
- donated their DOS emulation layer to FreeBSD.</p>
-
<p>The FreeBSD and NetBSD projects separated more than five years
ago. OpenBSD is the only new BSD project to split off in the last five
years.</p>
@@ -241,37 +244,43 @@
setting up a Cluster simple. The source code is freely available, and will run
on FreeBSD without much problem.</li>
- <li><a href="http://cubix.desy.de/General/bsd/bsd.html">http://cubix.desy.de/General/bsd/bsd.html</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="http://acme.ecn.purdue.edu/">http://acme.ecn.purdue.edu/</a>
- Advanced Computer Matrix for Engineering (ACME) which runs the FreeBSD Operating System.</li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/workshops/Talks/Mikler/mikler.html">
- http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/workshops/Talks/Mikler/mikler.html</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.scope.gmd.de/info/www6/technical/paper196/paper196.html">
- http://www.scope.gmd.de/info/www6/technical/paper196/paper196.html</a>NetBSD for Clusters!</li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/~milind/MediaServers.html">
- http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/~milind/MediaServers.html</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/Projects/old/ClusterCookbook/">
+ http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/Projects/ClusterCookbook/index.html</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=964">
- http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=964</a>
- Daemon News Posting, quick talk about Clustering</li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/fbsdcluster/">
+ http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/fbsdcluster/</a>
+ Brooks Davis's paper about the implementation of a FreeBSD cluster
+ with more than 300 CPU's</li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/07/01/freesbie.html/">
+ http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/07/01/freesbie.html/</a>
+ Building a Web Cluster with FreeSBIE (a FreeBSD derivative live-CD
+ system)</li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/carp.html">
+ http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/carp.html</a>
+ OpenBSD's Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP) lets you
+ build redundant clusters at the level of the firewall
+
+ <li><a href=http://www.countersiege.com/doc/pfsync-carp">
+ http://www.countersiege.com/doc/pfsync-carp</a>
+ A good explanation of CARP
+
+ <li><a href="http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/carp.html">
+ http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/carp.html</a>
+ OpenBSD's CARP ported to FreeBSD
- <li><a href="http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/Projects/ClusterCookbook/index.html">
- http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/Projects/ClusterCookbook/index.html</a></li>
</ul>
- <p>In addition to this, Tom Rhodes is currently writing an article designed to walk a user through setting up
- a Parallel Computing environment using FreeBSD and other utilities. Keep an eye out for this article in late
- 2002 early 2003.</p>
+ <p>Note, that <a href="mailto:freebsd-cluster at FreeBSD.org">freebsd-cluster</a>
+ mailing list is available for further discussion about clustering of
+ FreeBSD.</p>
<hr noshade size="1">
<h3><a name="support">There's no commercial support for *BSD</a></h3>
- <p><b>FreeBSD:</b> The <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/commercial/consulting.html">FreeBSD
- Commercial Consulting Page</a> lists companies that offer commercial
+ <p><b>FreeBSD:</b> The <a href="../commercial/consult_bycat.html">FreeBSD
+ Commercial Vendors Page</a> lists companies that offer commercial
support for FreeBSD.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.freebsdmall.com">FreeBSD
@@ -290,16 +299,17 @@
<h3><a name="applications">There</a> are no applications for *BSD</h3>
<p>The free software community started running on predominantly BSD
- systems(SunOS and similar). *BSD users can generally compile software
+ systems (SunOS and similar). *BSD users can generally compile software
written for these systems without needing to make any changes.</p>
<p>In addition, each *BSD project uses a ``ports'' system to make the
building of ported software much easier.</p>
- <p><b>FreeBSD:</b> There are currently more than 8,000
+ <p><b>FreeBSD:</b> There are currently more than 13,000
applications ready to download and install in the FreeBSD ports
- collection. On both the i386 and Alpha, the Linux emulation layer will
- also run the vast majority of Linux applications.</p>
+ collection. On i386, amd64, ia64 and Alpha, the Linux emulation layer will
+ also run the vast majority of Linux applications. On the amd64 and ia64
+ architectures there is a compatibility layer to run 32-bit binaries.</p>
<p><b>NetBSD:</b> The Linux emulation layer will run the vast majority of
i386 Linux applications, and the majority of SunOS4 applications can be
@@ -325,17 +335,6 @@
on FreeBSD with Java support was the Linux version. Now you can
also use a native FreeBSD version of Mozilla with a native Java
plugin, all compiled conveniently from the ports!</p>
-
- <hr noshade size="1">
-
- <h3><a name="aout">*BSD</a> uses the a.out executable format, which is
- outdated technology</h3>
-
- <p><b>FreeBSD:</b> Quite a while ago (before 1998) FreeBSD used the a.out
- format by default. There were no pressing reasons to switch earlier. In
- particular, FreeBSD did not (and does not) have the problems building
- shared libraries that spurred the Linux conversion from a.out to ELF. As
- of FreeBSD version 3.0, FreeBSD uses the ELF executable format.</p>
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