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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