svn commit: r49748 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/advocacy
Warren Block
wblock at FreeBSD.org
Sat Dec 17 03:24:57 UTC 2016
Author: wblock
Date: Sat Dec 17 03:24:56 2016
New Revision: 49748
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49748
Log:
Minor updates to the Myths page on website.
PR: 213521
Submitted by: linimon
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/advocacy/myths.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/advocacy/myths.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/advocacy/myths.xml Sat Dec 17 03:19:55 2016 (r49747)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/advocacy/myths.xml Sat Dec 17 03:24:56 2016 (r49748)
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
<body class="navinclude.about">
- <p>As the BSD projects (DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD) have grown in size,
+ <p>As the BSD projects (including DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD) have grown in size,
a number of persistent myths have grown up around them. Some of these are
perpetuated by well meaning but misguided individuals, others by people
pursuing their own agendas.</p>
@@ -23,13 +23,15 @@
as possible.</p>
<blockquote><b>Note:</b> Throughout this page, ``*BSD'' refers to all
- four of the BSD Projects. Where a myth or response is specific to a
+ of the BSD Projects. Where a myth or response is specific to a
particular project it is indicated as such.</blockquote>
<blockquote>If you are aware of an omission or error on this page, please
let the <a href="mailto:doc at freebsd.org">FreeBSD
documentation project mailing list</a> know.</blockquote>
+ <h2>Myths</h2>
+
<h2>Index</h2>
<ul>
@@ -62,9 +64,7 @@
<li><a href="#beaten">(some other system) is better than *BSD</a></li>
</ul>
- <h2>Myths</h2>
-
- <h3><a name="closed-model">*BSD</a> has a closed development
+ <h3>Myth: <a name="closed-model">*BSD</a> has a closed development
model, it's more ``Cathedral'' than ``Bazaar''</h3>
<p>Eric Raymond wrote an influential paper, ``<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/">The
@@ -130,12 +130,12 @@
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/>
- <h3><a name="own-distro">You</a> cannot make your own distributions
+ <h3>Myth: <a name="own-distro">You</a> cannot make your own distributions
or derivative works of *BSD</h3>
<p>You can. You just need to say in the documentation and source
- files where the code is derived from. A bunch of derivative
- projects exists:</p>
+ files where the code is derived from. Multiple derivative
+ projects exist:</p>
<ul>
<li><p><a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD">Debian
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/>
- <h3><a name="server">*BSD</a> makes a great server, but a poor
+ <h3>Myth: <a name="server">*BSD</a> makes a great server, but a poor
(&unix;) desktop</h3>
<p>*BSD makes a great server. It also makes a great desktop. Many of
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/>
- <h3><a name="old-codebase">The</a> BSD codebase is old, outdated, and
+ <h3>Myth: <a name="old-codebase">The</a> BSD codebase is old, outdated, and
dying</h3>
<p>While the BSD codebase may be more than 20 years old, it is neither
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/>
- <h3><a name="bsd-war">The</a> *BSD projects are at war with one another,
+ <h3>Myth: <a name="bsd-war">The</a> *BSD projects are at war with one another,
splinter groups form each week</h3>
<p>No. While occasional advocacy may get a touch heated, the *BSD flavors
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/>
- <h3><a name="clustering">You</a> can't cluster *BSD systems (parallel
+ <h3>Myth: <a name="clustering">You</a> can't cluster *BSD systems (parallel
computing)</h3>
<p>The following URLs should disprove this;</p>
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/>
- <h3><a name="support">There's no commercial support for *BSD</a></h3>
+ <h3>Myth: <a name="support">There's no commercial support for *BSD</a></h3>
<p><b>FreeBSD:</b> The <a href="../commercial/consult_bycat.html">FreeBSD
Commercial Vendors Page</a> lists companies that offer commercial
@@ -314,16 +314,13 @@
Mall</a> also offer commercial support, along with shirts,
hats, books, software, and promotional items.</p>
- <p>For training, one might try <a href="http://www.bsdmall.com/">BSDMall.com</a>, but they sell
- other items too, like shirts, hats, books and software! Definitely worth a look.</p>
-
<p><b>OpenBSD:</b> The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/support.html">OpenBSD Commercial
Consulting Page</a> lists companies that offer commercial support for
OpenBSD.</p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/>
- <h3><a name="applications">There</a> are no applications for *BSD</h3>
+ <h3>Myth: <a name="applications">There</a> are no applications for *BSD</h3>
<p>The free software community started running on predominantly BSD
systems (SunOS and similar). *BSD users can generally compile software
@@ -332,10 +329,10 @@
<p>In addition, each *BSD project uses a ``ports'' system to make the
building of ported software much easier.</p>
- <p><b>FreeBSD:</b> There are currently more than 24,000
+ <p><b>FreeBSD:</b> There are currently more than 26,000
applications ready to download and install in the FreeBSD ports
collection. On i386 and AMD64, the Linux emulation layer will
- also run the vast majority of Linux applications. On the AMD64 and Itanium
+ also run the vast majority of Linux applications. On the AMD64
architectures there is a compatibility layer to run 32-bit FreeBSD binaries.</p>
<p><b>NetBSD:</b> The Linux emulation layer will run the vast majority of
@@ -359,19 +356,19 @@
with few, if any, problems.</p>
<p>As a historical note, the first version of Netscape Navigator that ran
- on FreeBSD with Java support was the Linux version. Now you can
+ on FreeBSD with Java support was the Linux version. These day you can
also use a native FreeBSD version of Mozilla with a native Java
- plugin, all compiled conveniently from the ports!</p>
+ plugin, all compiled conveniently from ports.</p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/>
- <h3><a name="beats">*BSD</a> is better than (insert other system)</h3>
+ <h3>Myth: <a name="beats">*BSD</a> is better than (insert other system)</h3>
<p>This is user opinion only.</p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1"/>
- <h3><a name="beaten">(insert some</a> other system) is better than *BSD</h3>
+ <h3>Myth: <a name="beaten">(insert some other system)</a> is better than *BSD</h3>
<p>This is user opinion only.</p>
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