Upgrade FreeBSD features page

[carlavilla]

Summary

I upgraded the FreeBSD features page. I thought it would be better to have a global features instead separated by releases.
In this way the page will not look stale with each release.
I copied some information from the FreeBSD handbook.
Do you think we need to add more information to the features page?

Rendered: https://www.carlavilla.es/features.html

PR: 253706

[pauamma_gundo.com]

website/content/en/features.adoc

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I'd use "over 50K" as portmgr endorses that.

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s/virtualizing/further restricting/

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s/third party/third-party/

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s/imported to/imported into/

Clarify "legacy-free".

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Do you mean grub-bhyve is no longer needed for these use cases?

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Isn't bhyve x86-specific?

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s/on top of/on top of a/

I'd also remove "Technically" and perhaps say "It works the same way..."

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I don't know what "independent instances of networking state" means, but vimage(9) suggests (in DESCRIPTION) that they're virtualized network stacks. If that's correct, I'd use that name instead.

[fernape]

website/content/en/features.adoc

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I think that number is wrong.

$ find . -name Makefile | wc -l

30533

We have 30533 Makefiles in the ports collection (give or take in case I have some work/ directories around...). It is hard to believe then, that we have over 50K ports.

[delphij]

website/content/en/features.adoc

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Do you mean grub-bhyve is no longer needed for these use cases?

Correct.

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Isn't bhyve x86-specific?

Yes it's currently x86 specific (I think there were effort on porting it to aarch64 some time ago, but that haven't been merged to main yet)

[grahamperrin]

website/content/en/features.adoc

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delete

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a

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FreeBSD is less than thirty years old (its 30th anniversary will be in 2023).

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lowercase b for boot, here and elsewhere

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reiteration

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Bootable clones of datasets.

A boot environment allows the system to be upgraded, while preserving the old system environment.

(Reference: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bectl&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD#DESCRIPTION.)

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reiteration

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delete

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Not a real word. Instead:

• fallback; or
• (without the preceding word safe) failsafe

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delete

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a new (inactive) environment without altering the active environment

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reiteration

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Finer

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delete

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software titles

(Not all titles are applications.)

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delete (reiteration)

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delete

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delete

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delete

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ports

[pauamma_gundo.com]

website/content/en/features.adoc

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[pauamma@gadfly] ~% find /usr/ports -maxdepth 2 -depth 2 -type d -print | wc -l
   30283

So yeah, 50K looks increasingly dubious.

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Yes it's currently x86 specific (I think there were effort on porting it to aarch64 some time ago, but that haven't been merged to main yet)

I would qualify "all supported versions of FreeBSD" then.

[pauamma_gundo.com]

website/content/en/features.adoc

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"fallback" was probably meant here.

[oshogbo]

website/content/en/features.adoc

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Yes I would lave this as listed, maybe not that its "Enabled by default" by the general description.
Thank you!

[dvl]

website/content/en/features.adoc

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We agree on what constitutes a port. If a port has 10 flavors, it's still just one port.

When this was asked on the mailing lists in November 2022 I did some research to find out why nothing was correct.

[carlavilla]

Thanks, I'm gonna review all the changes and upload again the diff
Btw, there's more text in your corrections than in my changes hahahaha

[carlavilla]

Fixed almost all the problems and add again capsicum

[carlavilla]

website/content/en/features.adoc

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hehehe, yes, but since we're so nearly 2023 I thought we can keep it :$

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Sorry what list?
This line "Combining the traditionally separate roles of volume manager and file system provides ZFS with unique advantages."?
I read the information about OpenZFS in the wikipedia and in ther official page and both use the same words "volume manager" and "file system"

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I don't get the change sorry. Can you please copy and paste the correction here?

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ufff, I personally prefer applications.

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Free of deprecated code

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Finally I took all the description used in vimage(9) hehehe :$

[carlavilla]

Can I go ahead with these changes and improve the document later? Having a features page pointing to FreeBSD 9 and 10 is not a good idea for the project

[grahamperrin]

In D35823#814674, @carlavilla wrote:

Can I go ahead with these changes …

Sorry, I can't visualise from what's in Phabricator.

Can you update https://www.carlavilla.es/features.html? For me to see how the current revision appears. Thanks.

[carlavilla]

Sorry, I upgraded it carlavilla.es/features.html

[pauamma_gundo.com]

website/content/en/features.adoc

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Sorry what list?
This line "Combining the traditionally separate roles of volume manager and file system provides ZFS with unique advantages."?

Yes.

I read the information about OpenZFS in the wikipedia and in ther official page and both use the same words "volume manager" and "file system"

ZFS also has a software RAID component, and I think it deserves a mention./

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Free of deprecated code

Then I'd use that wording instead.

[grahamperrin]

website/content/en/features.adoc

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Less verbose (and navigation to the page is About ▶ Features).

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Link to https://freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd/timeline/

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FreeBSD is an operating system. It's not found in an operating system.

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This does not add value here; it's not a feature.

It's more the type of thing that might be found somewhere under the Community menu.

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Mental note, for a future review: are these three truly still the goals? Elsewhere, I see a different trio.

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Consistency: punctuate the final point only.

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Less verbose.

If it's necessary to state that things are not stagnant (words to that effect), make a general statement nearer the head of the page. For what it's worth, I think that ongoing development is implicit within the decades blurb.

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Link to https://www.freebsd.org/ports/

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Link to https://wiki.freebsd.org/Linuxulator

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It's comparable, not quite the same.

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For a Features page, better refer to something other than a manual page, however there's no mention of VNET in the FreeBSD Handbook; https://wiki.freebsd.org/NetworkVirtualization is historical; and so on.

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For a reader who is new to this word: there's no mention in the FreeBSD Handbook, https://wiki.freebsd.org/VIMAGE is outdated, and so on.

It's mentioned in the manual page for vnet(9), so maybe present it as VIMAGE.

[grahamperrin]

website/content/en/features.adoc

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I forgot to abbreviate FreeBSD jail to jail

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Afterthought: this suggested edit is probably wrong.

(Sorry, I find it difficult to interpret AsciiDoc, also some difficulty with Phabricator, I should have swapped out to rendered https://www.carlavilla.es/features.html then back.)

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I can't find it at the moment, but I'm fairly certain that the existing phrase applications and libraries arose in or around another recent review.

[carlavilla]

I'm gonna try to fix all of your comments and go ahead with the commit.
Right now in the state of this review. I can't follow all your comments. It's impossible to me.
There's more information in your comments than the original information I wrote.
If you think we can improve this even more please open a PR.

[grahamperrin]

Thanks, everyone –

In D35823#814883, @carlavilla wrote:

… can't follow all your comments. …

I reached the same point!

Any major review can be a chore (and there's much to the feature set), but it's well worth it. Future reviews should be much easier …