www/178190: myths web page should be updated
Olivier Cochard-Labbe
olivier at cochard.me
Fri Apr 26 23:00:02 UTC 2013
>Number: 178190
>Category: www
>Synopsis: myths web page should be updated
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-www
>State: open
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>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Apr 26 23:00:00 UTC 2013
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>Originator: Olivier Cochard-Labbe
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Reading this page: http://www.freebsd.org/advocacy/myths.html
We found old facts like:
"All the *BSD Projects use CVS to maintain their source code.
All the *BSD Projects: make a CVS tree available for anyone to browse and download, 24 hours a day. The tree can be retrieved using Anonymous CVS, CVSup, CVSupit, CTM (by e-mail), or through simple FTP."
=> FreeBSD migrate to SVN some time ago
=> Is important to precise "24 hours a day" ?
We should replace this part by something like that:
"All the *BSD Projects use SVN or at least CVS to maintain their source code.
All the *BSD Projects: make a SVN or CVS tree available for anyone to browse and download, 24 hours a day. The tree can be retrieved using Anonymous CVS, CVSup, CVSupit, CTM (by e-mail), SVN, or through simple FTP/HTTP."
On the "You cannot make your own distributions or derivative works of *BSD" section, there are some died link/project:
- ThinBSD => Blank page website, don't know if it's still alive
And FreeNAS and NAS4Free are missing from this list too.
Other outdated fact:
The "Technological enhancements" list should be updated (Capsicum, ZFS, etc...)
Other outdated fact:
"Architecture ports: FreeBSD supports seven main architectures currently: Alpha, AMD64, i386, Itanium, PC-98, PowerPC and UltraSPARC"
=> We should remove Alpha and add ARM
The "You can't cluster *BSD systems (parallel computing)" section should be updated with the HybridCluster (http://www.hybrid-cluster.com/) example that is more recent than the given examples.
Other outdated fact:
"FreeBSD: There are currently more than 16,000 applications ready to download and install in the FreeBSD ports collection."
=> FreshPorts indicate 24,376 ports.
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