svn commit: r45820 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk
bjk at FreeBSD.org
Tue Oct 14 04:18:36 UTC 2014
Author: bjk
Date: Tue Oct 14 04:18:35 2014
New Revision: 45820
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45820
Log:
Some edits to the Q3 report for grammar and readability
Approved by: hrs (mentor, blanket)
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Tue Oct 14 01:29:48 2014 (r45819)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Tue Oct 14 04:18:35 2014 (r45820)
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@
gigabit Ethernet adapters.</p>
<p>The code implements hardware PDU offload for both target and
- initiator. The iSCSI stack has been modified to provide
+ initiator. The iSCSI stack has been modified to provide a
hardware-independent offload API, allowing offload drivers to
be loaded as kernel modules, and to provide mechanisms for the
system administrator to configure this feature. The project
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@
<body>
<p>This is a Google Summer of code project to provide
- a noninteractive &os; installation from the network. In
+ a noninteractive &os; installation process from the network. In
the first part, an implementation was added for scripted
<tt>bsdinstall(8)</tt>. It supports variables such as KEYMAP,
HOSTNAME, MIRROR, RELEASE, TIMEZONE, DAEMONS, ROOTPWHASH, and
@@ -810,9 +810,9 @@
new system images together with addon services at much higher
frequency and with much less manual intervention. This should
free up a lot of development time to be spent on the core of
- the project: the web-interface.</p>
+ the project: the web interface.</p>
- <p>Furthermore, a new website and forum is being worked at,
+ <p>Furthermore, a new website and forum is being worked on,
replacing the old-fashioned website that offers only limited
functionality. The new website will be linked to the server
database, providing real-time updates about the project.</p>
@@ -950,7 +950,7 @@
<help>
<task>
- <p>Create test suite for the most common modes.</p>
+ <p>Create a test suite for the most common modes.</p>
</task>
</help>
</project>
@@ -1176,8 +1176,8 @@
<body>
<p>SDIO is an interface designed as an extension of the existing
- SD card standard, allowing connection of different peripherals
- to the host with the standard SD controller. Peripherals
+ SD card standard, allowing the connection of different peripherals
+ to a host with a standard SD controller. Peripherals
currently sold in the general market include WLAN/BT modules,
cameras, fingerprint readers, and barcode scanners. SDIO is
also used to connect some peripherals in products like
@@ -1273,7 +1273,7 @@
providing a stable repo of packages for ARMv6.</p>
<p><tt>ports-mgmt/poudriere-devel</tt> is still the current
- method for building packages. See previous status report for
+ method for building packages. See the previous status report for
explanations and details on methods.</p>
</body>
</project>
@@ -1802,7 +1802,7 @@
converted and cleaned up all of the keyboard map files for use
with <tt>vt(4)</tt>.</p>
- <p>The EFI framebuffer driver and the ofwfb driver now works
+ <p>The EFI framebuffer driver and the ofwfb driver now work
with the xf86-video-scfb X11 video driver, supporting
native-resolution (albeit unaccelerated) X.</p>
@@ -1822,7 +1822,7 @@
</task>
<task>
- <p>Support direct handling of keyboard by the <tt>kbd</tt>
+ <p>Support direct handling of keyboards by the <tt>kbd</tt>
device (without <tt>kbdmux(4)</tt>).</p>
</task>
@@ -1906,7 +1906,7 @@
ported to it, for amd64 and i386 architectures. It was first
released with Debian "squeeze" as a development preview in
2011, featured again in the "wheezy" release, and hopes to be
- part of the official Debian "jessie" release early 2015.</p>
+ part of the official Debian "jessie" release in early 2015.</p>
<p>In 2003 there were several attempts to bootstrap a minimal
Debian system upon &os; or NetBSD kernels, some also trying to
@@ -1921,7 +1921,7 @@
<p>&os; support within GNU libc is now mostly maintained by Petr
Salinger, who recently converted it from an older threading
- implementation based on LinuxThreads to NPTL which is much
+ implementation based on LinuxThreads to NPTL, which is much
more compatible with the software we run. We have the GNU
compiler toolchain as well as Clang 3.4; Perl, Python and
Ruby; and OpenJDK 7, based the on work done in &os;'s own
@@ -1953,7 +1953,7 @@
<p><tt>vt(4)</tt> was necessary for KMS to not break VT
switching. But it has also improved the console's handling of
non-ASCII character sets and we do look forward to having
- console fonts for non-Latin script.</p>
+ console fonts for non-Latin scripts.</p>
<p>We have supported ZFS for some time, even as a root/boot
filesystem (using GRUB 2; Robert Millan added the ZFS support
@@ -1972,12 +1972,12 @@
and PVHVM support into our standard kernel builds.</p>
<p>We already have userland tools to configure the PF firewall.
- As an experimenting, we are compiling in IPSEC support by
+ As an experiment, we are compiling in IPSEC support by
default for the upcoming release, and would like to see it put
to good use against present-day privacy and security
threats.</p>
- <p>We try to support uses of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD inside a jail
+ <p>We try to support the use of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD inside a jail
on a &os; host system, and hopefully vice-versa. Some of the
jail utilities are not yet packaged, but we have documentation
on the Debian Wiki on how to set up jails on "wheezy", which
@@ -1988,7 +1988,7 @@
that to systemd. For the next release we may switch to
OpenRC, which is mostly ported already.</p>
- <p>Not having systemd or udev, means that we will be unable to
+ <p>Not having systemd or udev means that we will be unable to
support GNOME 3.14 in the upcoming release. We have very good
support for XFCE, also have KDE, LXDE and the
recently-packaged MATE desktop environment. The Debian
@@ -2002,7 +2002,7 @@
issues you run into. Ask for help on our project mailing list
or IRC channel, and let us know of any bugs you find. We
still have time to fix problems before release, and we would
- be happy to improve our documentation any time.</p>
+ be happy to improve our documentation at any time.</p>
</body>
</project>
@@ -2031,7 +2031,7 @@
commands: Atomic Test and Set (ATS) — COMPARE AND
WRITE command; Extended Copy (Clone) — SPC-3 subset
of XCOPY commands; Write Same (Zero) — set of WRITE
- SAME commands; Dead Space Reclamation (Delete) — UNMAP
+ SAME commands; and Dead Space Reclamation (Delete) — UNMAP
command.</p>
<p>Microsoft ODX includes support for these SCSI commands:
@@ -2041,7 +2041,7 @@
<p>All XCOPY operations are currently limited to one storage
host. ODX operations are currently limited only to iSCSI
disks. Accelerated inter-host copying or copying to/from
- files on Samba shares is not implemented and handled by
+ files on Samba shares is not implemented and is handled by
initiators in the legacy way.</p>
<p>The code is committed to &os; head and stable/10 branches,
@@ -2056,7 +2056,7 @@
<help>
<task>
<p>Full support for thin provisioning, including capacity
- usage reporting and thresholds notifications.</p>
+ usage reporting and threshold notifications.</p>
</task>
<task>
@@ -2167,7 +2167,8 @@
<p>A lot has happened in the last few months. Shawn Webb gave
presentations at both BSDCan 2014 and EuroBSDCon 2014. The
presentations were met with a lot of support and backing.
- At the end of EuroBSDCon Ilya Bakulin fixed the known ARM bug.
+ At the end of EuroBSDCon Ilya Bakulin fixed the known bug with
+ ASLR on ARM systems.
Shawn Webb and Oliver Pinter have submitted our patch to
the Phabricator code review system. Shawn Webb added
an API for allowing a debugger to disable ASLR to
@@ -2262,8 +2263,9 @@
<p>In late August, the &os; 10.1-RELEASE cycle began, and as of
this writing, is expected to stay on schedule.</p>
- <p>Work has continued to produce virtual machine images as part
- of the release cycle, supporting various cloud services such
+ <p>Work to produce virtual machine images as part
+ of the release cycle has continued,
+ supporting various cloud services such
as Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2, and Google Compute Engine.</p>
</body>
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