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| 20 <pubdate>$FreeBSD: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/readme/article.sgml 83092 2001-09-05 17:04:36Z bmah $</pubdate> | 20 <pubdate>$FreeBSD: head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/readme/article.sgml 83425 2001-09-14 04:33:37Z bmah $</pubdate> |
| 21 22 <copyright> 23 <year>2000</year> 24 <year>2001</year> 25 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The FreeBSD Documentation Project</holder> 26 </copyright> 27 </articleinfo> 28 --- 53 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 82 and various other users who want to get involved with the 83 ongoing development of &os;. While the &os; development team 84 tries its best to ensure that each &release.type; works as 85 advertised, &release.branch; is very much a 86 work-in-progress.</para> 87 88 <para>The basic requirements for using this &release.type are 89 technical proficiency with &os; and an understanding of the | 21 22 <copyright> 23 <year>2000</year> 24 <year>2001</year> 25 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The FreeBSD Documentation Project</holder> 26 </copyright> 27 </articleinfo> 28 --- 53 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 82 and various other users who want to get involved with the 83 ongoing development of &os;. While the &os; development team 84 tries its best to ensure that each &release.type; works as 85 advertised, &release.branch; is very much a 86 work-in-progress.</para> 87 88 <para>The basic requirements for using this &release.type are 89 technical proficiency with &os; and an understanding of the |
| 90 ongoing development process of &os; &release.current; (as | 90 ongoing development process of &os; &release.branch; (as |
| 91 discussed on the &a.current;).</para> 92 93 <para>For those more interested in doing business with &os; than 94 in experimenting with new &os; technology, formal releases 95 (such as &release.prev;) are frequently more appropriate. 96 Releases undergo a period of testing and quality assurance 97 checking to ensure high reliability and dependability.</para> 98 --- 70 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 169 <title>Contacting the &os; Project</title> 170 171 <sect2> 172 <title>Email and Mailing Lists</title> 173 174 <para>For any questions or general technical support issues, 175 please send mail to the &a.questions;.</para> 176 | 91 discussed on the &a.current;).</para> 92 93 <para>For those more interested in doing business with &os; than 94 in experimenting with new &os; technology, formal releases 95 (such as &release.prev;) are frequently more appropriate. 96 Releases undergo a period of testing and quality assurance 97 checking to ensure high reliability and dependability.</para> 98 --- 70 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 169 <title>Contacting the &os; Project</title> 170 171 <sect2> 172 <title>Email and Mailing Lists</title> 173 174 <para>For any questions or general technical support issues, 175 please send mail to the &a.questions;.</para> 176 |
| 177 <para>If you're tracking the -current development efforts, you | 177 <para>If you're tracking the &release.branch; development efforts, you |
| 178 <emphasis>must</emphasis> join the &a.current;, in order to 179 keep abreast of recent developments and changes that may 180 affect the way you use and maintain the system. 181 182 <para>Additionally, being a largely-volunteer effort, the &os; 183 Project is always happy to have extra hands willing to help 184 — there are already far more desired enhancements than 185 there is time to implement them. To contact the developers on --- 107 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 293 this file before installing a release of &os;, as it 294 contains the latest information on problems which have 295 been found and fixed since the release was 296 created.</para> 297 </listitem> 298 </itemizedlist> 299 </para> 300 | 178 <emphasis>must</emphasis> join the &a.current;, in order to 179 keep abreast of recent developments and changes that may 180 affect the way you use and maintain the system. 181 182 <para>Additionally, being a largely-volunteer effort, the &os; 183 Project is always happy to have extra hands willing to help 184 — there are already far more desired enhancements than 185 there is time to implement them. To contact the developers on --- 107 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 293 this file before installing a release of &os;, as it 294 contains the latest information on problems which have 295 been found and fixed since the release was 296 created.</para> 297 </listitem> 298 </itemizedlist> 299 </para> 300 |
| 301 <para>Most information is also available from the Documentation 302 menu during installation.</para> 303 </sect2> | 301 <para>Most of this information is also available from the 302 Documentation menu during installation. Once the system is 303 installed, you can revisit this menu by running the 304 &man.sysinstall.8; utility.</para> |
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| 305 <sect2> 306 <title>Books and Articles</title> 307 308 <para>Pointers to more documentation on &os; can be found in the 309 <ulink 310 url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bibliography.html#BIBLIOGRAPHY-FREEBSD">Books 311 & Magazines Specific to FreeBSD</ulink> section of the 312 &os; Handbook. Because of &os;'s strong UNIX heritage, many 313 other articles and books written for UNIX systems are 314 applicable as well. A selection of these documents can be 315 found in the Handbook's <ulink 316 url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bibliography.html">Bibliography</ulink>. 317 </para> 318 319 <para>If you're new to &os; then you should also read all of the 320 documentation files listed in <xref linkend="release-docs">, 321 all of which are available from the Documentation menu in the 322 installation program. It may seem like a lot to read, but 323 it's important to at least acquaint yourself with the types of 324 information available, should you run into problems later. 325 Once the system is installed, you can also revisit this menu 326 by running the &man.sysinstall.8; utility.</para> 327 328 <para>On-line versions of the <ulink 329 url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/">FAQ</ulink> 330 (Frequently Asked Questions document) and <ulink 331 url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/">Handbook</ulink> 332 are always available from the <ulink 333 url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/docs.html">FreeBSD Documentation 334 page</ulink> or its mirrors. If you install the 335 <filename>doc</filename> distribution set, you can use a Web 336 browser to read the FAQ and Handbook locally.</para> 337 | |
| 338 <note> 339 <para>It is extremely important to read the errata for any 340 given release before installing it, to learn about any 341 <quote>late-breaking news</quote> or post-release problems. 342 The errata file accompanying each release (most likely right 343 next to this file) is already out of date by definition, but 344 other copies are kept updated on the Internet and should be 345 consulted as the <quote>current errata</quote> for this 346 release. These other copies of the errata are located at 347 <ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/"></ulink> (as 348 well as any sites which keep up-to-date mirrors of this 349 location).</para> 350 </note> 351 </sect2> | 306 <note> 307 <para>It is extremely important to read the errata for any 308 given release before installing it, to learn about any 309 <quote>late-breaking news</quote> or post-release problems. 310 The errata file accompanying each release (most likely right 311 next to this file) is already out of date by definition, but 312 other copies are kept updated on the Internet and should be 313 consulted as the <quote>current errata</quote> for this 314 release. These other copies of the errata are located at 315 <ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/"></ulink> (as 316 well as any sites which keep up-to-date mirrors of this 317 location).</para> 318 </note> 319 </sect2> |
| 320 321 <sect2> 322 <title>Books and Articles</title> 323 324 <para>Two highly-useful collections of &os;-related information, 325 maintained by the &os; Project, 326 are the &os; Handbook and &os; FAQ (Frequently Asked 327 Questions document). On-line versions of the <ulink 328 url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/">Handbook</ulink> 329 and <ulink 330 url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/">FAQ</ulink> 331 are always available from the <ulink 332 url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/docs.html">FreeBSD Documentation 333 page</ulink> or its mirrors. If you install the 334 <filename>doc</filename> distribution set, you can use a Web 335 browser to read the Handbook and FAQ locally.</para> 336 337 <para>A listing of books and other documents about &os; can be 338 found in the <ulink 339 url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bibliography.html">bibliography</ulink> 340 of the &os; Handbook. Because of &os;'s strong UNIX heritage, 341 many other articles and books written for UNIX systems are 342 applicable as well, some of which are also listed in the 343 bibliography.</para> 344 </sect2> |
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| 352 </sect1> 353 354 <sect1> 355 <title>Acknowledgments</title> 356 357 <para>&os; represents the cumulative work of many hundreds, if not 358 thousands, of individuals from around the world who have worked 359 countless hours to bring about this &release.type;. For a --- 20 unchanged lines hidden --- | 345 </sect1> 346 347 <sect1> 348 <title>Acknowledgments</title> 349 350 <para>&os; represents the cumulative work of many hundreds, if not 351 thousands, of individuals from around the world who have worked 352 countless hours to bring about this &release.type;. For a --- 20 unchanged lines hidden --- |