[RFC] Minor update to applications.sgml
Ceri Davies
ceri at submonkey.net
Sat Feb 12 04:29:15 PST 2005
During the logo flamefest, I saw someone mention that applications.sgml
was very out of date; the attached patch tries to fix the worst of that.
It's probably not enough though. Please review.
Ceri
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Index: applications.sgml
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RCS file: /home/ncvs/www/en/applications.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.26
diff -u -r1.26 applications.sgml
--- applications.sgml 26 Apr 2004 18:35:55 -0000 1.26
+++ applications.sgml 12 Feb 2005 12:23:47 -0000
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
<li><b>Internet services. </b>Many Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
find FreeBSD ideal, running WWW, Usenet news, FTP, Email, and other
services. Ready-to-run software like the <a
- href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> web server or the Wu-ftpd
+ href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> web server or the ProFTPD
FTP server make it easy to set up a business or
community-centered ISP. Of course, with FreeBSD's unbeatable <a
href="&base;/internet.html">networking</a>, your users will enjoy
@@ -63,11 +63,18 @@
<li><b>X Window workstation. </b>From an inexpensive X terminal to an
advanced X display, FreeBSD works quite well. Free X software (<a
- href="http://www.xfree86.org/">XFree86</a>™) comes with the
- system. <a href="http://www.xig.com/">Xi Graphics</a> offers
- accelerated X software for high-performance graphics hardware (such
- as Matrox), as well as the industry standard Motif® and OpenGL®
- libraries.</li>
+ href="http://x.org/">X.Org</a>™) comes with the
+ system. <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/">nVidia</a> offers native
+ drivers for their high-performance graphics hardware,
+ and the industry standard Motif® and OpenGL®
+ libraries are supported. Both the <a
+ href="http://www.kde.org">KDE</a> and <a
+ href="http://www.gnome.org">GNOME</a> desktop environments
+ enjoy full support and provide office suite functionality, with
+ further good functionality available in the <a
+ href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.Org</a> and
+ <a href="http://www.softmaker.de/tml_en.htm">TextMaker</a>
+ products.</li>
<li><b>Networking. </b>From packet filtering to routing to name
service, FreeBSD can turn any PC into a Internet firewall, email
@@ -81,9 +88,10 @@
libraries have always been easy to make and use.</li>
<li><b>Net surfing.</b> A real UNIX workstation makes a great Internet
- surfboard, and the BSD version of <a
- href="http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/communicator/index.html">Netscape
- Navigator</a> with Java support runs on FreeBSD. Surf the web,
+ surfboard. FreeBSD versions of <a
+ href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/">Firefox</a>
+ and <a href="http://www.opera.com/">Opera</a> are available
+ for serious web users. Surf the web,
publish your own web pages, read Usenet news, and send and receive
email with a FreeBSD system on your desktop.</li>
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