svn commit: r41760 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction

[Eitan Adler]

Author: eadler
Date: Mon May 27 21:43:35 2013
New Revision: 41760
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41760

Log:
  Kill an old and outdated section which is better covered elsewhere (on the 'advocacy' portion of the website).
  
  Split the remainder into two
  
  Split the remainder into two
  
  Reviewed by:	trhodes, bcr

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.xml	Mon May 27 20:56:55 2013	(r41759)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.xml	Mon May 27 21:43:35 2013	(r41760)
@@ -900,52 +900,19 @@
     </sect2>
 
     <sect2 id="relnotes">
-      <title>The Current &os; Release</title>
-
-      <indexterm><primary>NetBSD</primary></indexterm>
-      <indexterm><primary>OpenBSD</primary></indexterm>
-      <indexterm><primary>386BSD</primary></indexterm>
-      <indexterm><primary>Free Software
-	  Foundation</primary></indexterm>
-      <indexterm><primary>U.C. Berkeley</primary></indexterm>
-      <indexterm>
-	<primary>Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG)</primary>
-      </indexterm>
-      <para>&os; is a freely available, full source 4.4BSD-Lite based
-	operating systems.  It is based primarily on software from U.C.
-	Berkeley's CSRG group, with some enhancements from NetBSD,
-	OpenBSD, 386BSD, and the Free Software Foundation.</para>
-
-      <para>Since our release of &os; 2.0 in late 1994, the
-	performance, feature set, and stability of &os; has improved
-	dramatically.
-	<!-- XXX is the rest of this paragraph still true ? -->
-	The largest change is a revamped virtual memory system with a
-	merged VM/file buffer cache that not only increases
-	performance, but also reduces &os;'s memory footprint, making
-	a 5 MB configuration a more acceptable minimum.  Other
-	enhancements include full NIS client and server support,
-	transaction TCP support, dial-on-demand PPP, integrated DHCP
-	support, an improved SCSI subsystem, ISDN support, support for
-	ATM, FDDI, Fast and Gigabit Ethernet (1000 Mbit)
-	adapters, improved support for the latest Adaptec controllers,
-	and many thousands of bug fixes.</para>
+      <title>Third Party Programs</title>
 
       <para>In addition to the base distributions, &os; offers a
 	ported software collection with thousands of commonly
 	sought-after programs.  At the time of this writing, there
 	were over &os.numports; ports!  The list of ports ranges from
-	http (WWW) servers, to games, languages, editors, and almost
+	http servers, to games, languages, editors, and almost
 	everything in between.  The entire Ports Collection requires
-	approximately &ports.size; of storage, all ports being
-	expressed as <quote>deltas</quote> to their original sources.
-	This makes it much easier for us to update ports, and greatly
-	reduces the disk space demands made by the older 1.0 Ports
-	Collection.  To compile a port, you simply change to the
-	directory of the program you wish to install, type
+	approximately &ports.size;.  To compile a port, you simply change
+	to the directory of the program you wish to install, type
 	<command>make install</command>, and let the system do the
 	rest.  The full original distribution for each port you build
-	is retrieved dynamically off the CD-ROM or a local FTP site,
+	is retrieved dynamically
 	so you need only enough disk space to build the ports you
 	want.  Almost every port is also provided as a pre-compiled
 	<quote>package</quote>, which can be installed with a simple
@@ -953,6 +920,10 @@
 	to compile their own ports from source.  More information on
 	packages and ports can be found in <xref
 	  linkend="ports"/>.</para>
+    </sect2>
+
+    <sect2>
+      <title>Additional Documentation</title>
 
       <para>All recent &os; versions provide an option in the
 	installer (either &man.sysinstall.8; or &man.bsdinstall.8;) to