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is already clear that we do not decorate trademarks with registered-trademark signs, nor do we write them in all caps, nor twist usage in other ways that trademark lawyers tell their clients to demand without any foundation in grammatical reality. The lawyers, in such cases, are simply wrong, and can
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This article most notably fails section 1(b) by having numerous short sections and long lists, and is weak on 2(c) with 59 out of 143 citations self-sourced. I believe we should remove the version history section as being redundant with the separate article as another editor has already suggested,
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It's in a "latest stable software release" template. The "Latest release" item in the infobox has two small "" items with links; if you click on them, it will open that template for editing. The same applies to the "Latest preview" item, which opens up FreeBSD's "latest preview software release"
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Hello everyone! I have been reviewing the article, it is good but some of the information is now dated in places. I am posting this to see if there is enthusiasm for a review of the article to perhaps include a more substantial change to some of the sections and was interested if anyone had any
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have sent their lawyers after us, and I don't think the FreeBSD Foundation are likely to do so, either. I don't see anything obvious in the Manual of Style about this, but, given the existence of several articles with names that are trademarks, I don't see this as a problem.
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Many (all?) trademarks are adjectives, and the trademark holder's lawyers may decree that the only proper use is "Frobozz brand chocolate-coated rutabaga", as in "I'll have three Frobozz brand chocolate-coated rutabagas, please", rather than "I'll have three Frobozzes,
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I agree, the article needs some improvement. Fixing 1b should be straightforward. 2c Can be improved by changing version history table. I don't think it should be fully removed, but maybe simplified to only contain the major releases and significant changes between
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Shouldn't we note in the second paragraph that FreeBSD is an operating system while Linux is just a kernel? Even if we want to say that BSD in general offers complete software, then we shouldn't mention it in FreeBSD, but rather in the BSD entry.
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I agree that it is misleading to say that the Switch uses or is derivative of FreeBSD, but by your own admission it does use code from it. I see nowhere that mentions the prominence of this code in other systems, which should be considered
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mandates that the FreeBSD Marks should not be used as nouns, and includes an example of proper use “I installed the FreeBSD operating system”. I believe that according to these rules this article should be renamed to
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Saying the Switch uses FreeBSD is misleading. It uses a very tiny part of FreeBSD that is already used in **many** other devices : its TCP stack. The switch OS cannot be considered a FreeBSD derivative.
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I am having an issue trying to find the InfoBox section regarding "Latest release" in order to add today's release of 13.0. Perhaps I am missing something, but can't locate that info to update it.
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ideas. I am very new to the wiki and hope my changes are welcomed, if you notice anything out of place or any serious errors drop me a message please!
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The trademark holder's wishes are irrelevant to anyone who is neither an affiliate of the trademark holder nor engaged in competing line of trade.
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I propose that either the references to the Switch is removed from the article, as it is not at all relevant.
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With link to article with full version history, it shouldn't be confusing and seems to be consistent with
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Lacking information on package management and in particular not a single mention of the proposed pkgbase
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on Knowledge (XXG). If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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on Knowledge (XXG). If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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FreeBSD UNIX 14.1 was out 4 June 2024 but I saw nowhere in the WTML to update the version number.--
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However, in practice, most people don't do that, and Knowledge (XXG) has articles such as
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safely be ignored because there is no possibility of confusion or unfair competition.
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Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences/Computer science, computing, and Internet
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Would be good to have more detail on the uniqueness of any kernel subsystems and libc
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Might be worth mentioning approach to security issues like meltdown, spectre, et al
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Could mention more about the influence of the tcp stack on other operating systems
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https://freebsdfoundation.org/legal/trademark-usage-terms-and-conditions/
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The first point of the "Proper Use of the FreeBSD Marks" section at
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Please update info about last release, because they release the
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rather than "Kleenex brand facial tissue", etc.. I don't think
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Find pictures for the biographies of computer scientists (see
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in the banner shell. Please resolve this conflict if possible.
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This article has been given a rating which conflicts with the
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and improve content/sourcing as needed. I have worked on the
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Article should be renamed to The FreeBSD Operating System
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