svn commit: r40968 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs

Eitan Adler eadler at FreeBSD.org
Thu Feb 14 14:20:35 UTC 2013


Author: eadler
Date: Thu Feb 14 14:20:34 2013
New Revision: 40968
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40968

Log:
  Make some small cleanups to features.xml
  
  Submitted by:	bjk, wblock
  Approved by:	bcr (mentor)

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/features.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/features.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/features.xml	Thu Feb 14 14:20:32 2013	(r40967)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/features.xml	Thu Feb 14 14:20:34 2013	(r40968)
@@ -15,17 +15,17 @@
 
     <h1>&os; offers many unique features.</h1>
 
-      <p>No matter what the application, you want your system's
-	resources performing at their full potential.  &os;'s focus
-	on performance, networking, and storage, combined with easy
-	system administration and excellent documentation to allow
-	you to do what you want.</p>
+    <p>No matter what the application, an operating system should take
+    advantage of every resource available.  &os;'s focus on
+    performance, networking, and storage combines with ease of system
+    administration and comprehensive documentation to realize the full
+    potential of any computer.</p>
 
     <h2>A complete operating system based on 4.4BSD.</h2>
 
       <p>&os;'s distinguished roots derive from the <b>BSD</b>
 	software releases from the Computer Systems Research Group at
-	the University of California, Berkeley.  Over fifteen years of
+	the University of California, Berkeley.  Over twenty years of
 	work have been put into enhancing &os;, adding
 	industry-leading scalability, network performance, management
 	tools, file systems, and security features.  As a result,
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 	  CAPABILITY_MODE have been added to the GENERIC kernel.</li>
 
 	<li><b>Hhook</b>:  (Helper Hook) and khelp(9) (Kernel Helpers)
-	  KPIs have been implemented.  These are a kind of superset of
+	  KPIs have been implemented.  These are a superset of
 	  pfil(9) framework for more general use in the kernel.  The
 	  hhook(9) KPI provides a way for kernel subsystems to export
 	  hook points that khelp(9) modules can hook to provide
@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@
 	  These allow a structured way to dynamically extend the
 	  kernel at runtime in an ABI preserving manner.</li>
 	<li><b>Accounting API:</b> has been implemented.  It can keep
-	  per-process, per-jail, and per-loginclass resource
-	  accounting information.  Note that this is not built nor
-	  installed by default.  To build and install them, specify
+	  per-process, per-jail, and per-login class resource
+	  accounting information.  Note that this is neither built nor
+	  installed by default.  To build and install this, specify
 	  options RACCT in the kernel configuration file and rebuild
 	  the base system as described in the FreeBSD Handbook</li>
 
@@ -70,13 +70,13 @@
 	  implementation and takes user-configurable actions based on
 	  the set of rules it maintains and the current resource
 	  usage.  The rctl(8) utility has been added to manage the
-	  rules in userland.  Note that this is not built nor
+	  rules in userland.  Note that this is neither  built nor
 	  installed by default.</li>
 
 	<li><b>Usb:</b> subsystem now supports USB packet filter.
-	  This allows to capture packets which go through each USB
-	  host controller.  The implementation is almost based on
-	  bpf(4) code.  The userland program usbdump(8) has been
+	  This allows capturing packets which go through each USB
+	  host rchitecture of the packet filter is similar to that of
+	  bpf.  The userland program usbdump(8) has been
 	  added.</li>
 
 	<li><b>Infiniband support:</b>, OFED (OpenFabrics Enterprise
@@ -86,16 +86,16 @@
 	<li><b>TCP/IP network:</b> stack now supports the mod_cc(9)
 	  pluggable congestion control framework.  This allows TCP
 	  congestion control algorithms to be implemented as
-	  dynamically loadable kernel modules.  The following kernel
-	  modules are available cc_chd(4) for the CAIA-Hamilton-Delay
+	  dynamically loadable kernel modules.  Many kernel
+	  modules are available: cc_chd(4) for the CAIA-Hamilton-Delay
 	  algorithm, cc_cubic(4) for the CUBIC algorithm, cc_hd(4)
 	  for the Hamilton-Delay algorithm, cc_htcp(4) for the H-TCP
 	  algorithm, cc_newreno(4) for the NewReno algorithm, and
 	  cc_vegas(4) for the Vegas algorithm.  The default algorithm
 	  can be set by a new sysctl(8) variable
-	  net.  inet.  tcp.  cc.  algorithm.</li>
+	  net.inet.tcp.cc.algorithm.</li>
 
-	<li><b>SU+J:</b> &os; Fast File System now supports soft
+	<li><b>SU+J:</b> &os;'s Fast File System now supports soft
 	updates with journaling.  It introduces an intent log into a
 	softupdates-enabled file system which eliminates the need for
 	background fsck(8) even on unclean shutdowns.</li>
@@ -118,13 +118,13 @@
 	  improvement over the previous version.</li>
 
 	<li><b>Linux emulation:</b> layer has been updated to version
-	  2.  6.  16 and the default Linux infrastructure port is now
+	  2.6.16 and the default Linux infrastructure port is now
 	  emulators/linux_base-f10 (Fedora 10)</li>
 
-	<li><b>Network Virtualization:</b> Container named vimage has
+	<li><b>Network Virtualization:</b> A container ("vimage") has
 	  been implemented, extending the FreeBSD kernel to maintain
 	  multiple independent instances of networking state.
-	  vimage facilities can be used independently to create fully
+	  Vimage facilities can be used independently to create fully
 	  virtualized network topologies, and jail(8) can directly
 	  take advantage of a fully virtualized network stack.</li>
       </ul>


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