[src/trunk]: src/distrib/notes first pass de-suckification for 2015. moderniz...

[snj <snj%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/ebce902a67f4
branches:  trunk
changeset: 338027:ebce902a67f4
user:      snj <snj%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Sat May 09 08:13:34 2015 +0000

description:
first pass de-suckification for 2015. modernize content a bit, fix dirty
rotten lies, improve wording, sync legalese with reality, yada yada yada.

diffstat:

 distrib/notes/acorn32/legal            |    4 +-
 distrib/notes/acorn32/prep             |    4 +-
 distrib/notes/acorn32/prep.RISCOS      |    6 +-
 distrib/notes/amd64/contents           |   25 +-
 distrib/notes/cats/legal               |    4 +-
 distrib/notes/common/legal.common      |   76 ++++-----
 distrib/notes/common/macros            |    4 +-
 distrib/notes/common/main              |  120 +++++++-------
 distrib/notes/common/postinstall       |    9 +-
 distrib/notes/common/sysinst           |  270 +++++++++++++++-----------------
 distrib/notes/common/upgrade           |    7 +-
 distrib/notes/common/xfer              |   18 +-
 distrib/notes/evbarm/legal             |    4 +-
 distrib/notes/macppc/prep.OPENFIRMWARE |    4 +-
 distrib/notes/shark/legal              |    4 +-
 distrib/notes/x68k/legal               |    4 +-
 16 files changed, 262 insertions(+), 301 deletions(-)

diffs (truncated from 1350 to 300 lines):

diff -r 9295e2140b26 -r ebce902a67f4 distrib/notes/acorn32/legal
--- a/distrib/notes/acorn32/legal       Sat May 09 08:10:01 2015 +0000
+++ b/distrib/notes/acorn32/legal       Sat May 09 08:13:34 2015 +0000
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: legal,v 1.3 2009/10/23 04:51:36 snj Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: legal,v 1.4 2015/05/09 08:13:34 snj Exp $
 .
 .It
-This product includes software developed by Advanced Risc Machines Ltd.
-.It
 This product includes software developed by the RiscBSD kernel team.
 .It
 This product includes software developed by Scott Stevens.
diff -r 9295e2140b26 -r ebce902a67f4 distrib/notes/acorn32/prep
--- a/distrib/notes/acorn32/prep        Sat May 09 08:10:01 2015 +0000
+++ b/distrib/notes/acorn32/prep        Sat May 09 08:13:34 2015 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: prep,v 1.14 2009/04/23 01:56:48 snj Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: prep,v 1.15 2015/05/09 08:13:34 snj Exp $
 .
 First and foremost, before beginning the installation process,
 .Em make sure you have a reliable backup
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 A self-extracting version of this
 can be found in the distribution directory at
 .Pa installation/misc/splug.bas
-or at David Pilling's web site:
+or at David Pilling's website:
 .Lk http://www.davidpilling.net/free.html
 .It
 A program to report your disk's geometry:
diff -r 9295e2140b26 -r ebce902a67f4 distrib/notes/acorn32/prep.RISCOS
--- a/distrib/notes/acorn32/prep.RISCOS Sat May 09 08:10:01 2015 +0000
+++ b/distrib/notes/acorn32/prep.RISCOS Sat May 09 08:13:34 2015 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-       $NetBSD: prep.RISCOS,v 1.22 2009/04/26 16:58:30 sborrill Exp $
+       $NetBSD: prep.RISCOS,v 1.23 2015/05/09 08:13:34 snj Exp $
 
 These instructions are specific to NetBSD/acorn32 on Acorn RISC OS platforms
 (RiscPC/A7000/A7000+/NC).
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 1.1 Hardware
 
-Refer to the NetBSD installation notes and/or the web site
+Refer to the NetBSD installation notes and/or the website
 http://www.NetBSD.org/ports/acorn32/ for a list of supported hardware.
 
 
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 
        A program that will unpack sparchives. We recommend that you
        get David Pilling's !SparkPlug. A self-extracting version of this
-       can be found at David Pilling's web site
+       can be found at David Pilling's website
        (http://www.davidpilling.net/free.html).
 
        A program to report your disk's geometry:
diff -r 9295e2140b26 -r ebce902a67f4 distrib/notes/amd64/contents
--- a/distrib/notes/amd64/contents      Sat May 09 08:10:01 2015 +0000
+++ b/distrib/notes/amd64/contents      Sat May 09 08:13:34 2015 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: contents,v 1.3 2015/01/11 04:03:47 snj Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: contents,v 1.4 2015/05/09 08:13:34 snj Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1999-2005 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -57,9 +57,11 @@
 .                      It Pa netbsd-INSTALL.gz
 The installation kernel.
 .                      It Pa netbsd-INSTALL_XEN3_DOMU.gz
+An installation kernel for Xen domU instances.
 .                      It Pa netbsd-XEN3_DOM0.gz
+A Xen dom0 kernel.
 .                      It Pa netbsd-XEN3_DOMU.gz
-.
+A Xen domU kernel.
 .              tag) \" binary/kernel/
 .
 .              It Pa sets/
@@ -88,18 +90,14 @@
 .Ss2 Binary distribution sets
 The
 .Nx
-\*M
-binary distribution sets contain the binaries which
-comprise the
-.Nx
-\*V release for \*M.
-The binary distribution sets can be found in the
+\*V release for \*M is comprised of the following binary sets, which
+can be found in the
 .Pa \*M/binary/sets
 subdirectory
 of the
 .Nx
 \*V
-distribution tree, and are as follows:
+distribution tree:
 .(tag xserver \" sets
 .\"
 .\" XXX: most sets except kern and xserver should be shared
@@ -213,7 +211,7 @@
 .
 .It Sy xserver
 The X server. 
-This includes the modular Xorg server.
+This includes the modular X.Org server.
 .
 .tag) \" x sets
 .
@@ -226,9 +224,8 @@
 .Pp
 The \*M binary distribution sets are distributed as gzipped tar files
 named with the extension
-.Sy .tgz ,
-e.g.
-.Pa base.tgz .
+.Sy .tgz
+.Pq e.g., Pa base.tgz .
 .
 .
 .Pp
@@ -237,7 +234,7 @@
 method, the filenames stored in the sets are relative and therefore
 the files are extracted
 .Em below the current directory .
-Therefore, if you want to extract the binaries into your system, i.e.
+Therefore, if you want to extract the binaries into your system, i.e.,
 replace the system binaries with them, you have to run the
 .Ic "tar -xzpf"
 command from the root directory (
diff -r 9295e2140b26 -r ebce902a67f4 distrib/notes/cats/legal
--- a/distrib/notes/cats/legal  Sat May 09 08:10:01 2015 +0000
+++ b/distrib/notes/cats/legal  Sat May 09 08:13:34 2015 +0000
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: legal,v 1.3 2009/10/23 04:51:37 snj Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: legal,v 1.4 2015/05/09 08:13:34 snj Exp $
 .
 .It
-This product includes software developed by Advanced Risc Machines Ltd.
-.It
 This product includes software developed by the RiscBSD kernel team.
 .It
 This product includes software developed by Scott Stevens.
diff -r 9295e2140b26 -r ebce902a67f4 distrib/notes/common/legal.common
--- a/distrib/notes/common/legal.common Sat May 09 08:10:01 2015 +0000
+++ b/distrib/notes/common/legal.common Sat May 09 08:13:34 2015 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: legal.common,v 1.92 2012/01/21 04:43:54 isaki Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: legal.common,v 1.93 2015/05/09 08:13:34 snj Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1999-2004 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 Foundation, Inc. and its contributors.
 .It
 This product includes software developed for the
-NetBSD Project.  See http://www.netbsd.org/ for
+NetBSD Project.  See http://www.NetBSD.org/ for
 information about NetBSD.
 .It
 This product includes software developed by Intel Corporation and
@@ -99,14 +99,13 @@
 .It
 This product includes software developed by Adam Glass.
 .It
-This product includes software developed by Advanced Risc Machines
-Ltd.
-.It
 This product includes software developed by Alex Zepeda, and
 Colin Wood for the NetBSD Projet.
 .It
 This product includes software developed by Alex Zepeda.
 .It
+This product includes software developed by Allen Briggs
+.It
 This product includes software developed by Amancio Hasty and
 Roger Hardiman
 .It
@@ -164,22 +163,20 @@
 This product includes software developed by Daniel Widenfalk
 for the NetBSD Project.
 .It
+This product includes software developed by David Miller.
+.It
 This product includes software developed by Dean Huxley.
 .It
+This product includes software developed by Emmanuel Dreyfus
+.It
 This product includes software developed by Eric S. Hvozda.
 .It
 This product includes software developed by Eric S. Raymond
 .It
-This product includes software developed by Eric Young (eay@@mincom.oz.au)
-.It
 This product includes software developed by Eric Young (eay%cryptsoft.com@localhost)
 .It
 This product includes software developed by Eric Young (eay%mincom.oz.au@localhost)
 .It
-This product includes software developed by K. Kobayashi.
-.It
-This product includes software developed by K. Kobayashi and H. Shimokawa.
-.It
 This product includes software developed by Ezra Story and  by Kari
 Mettinen.
 .It
@@ -194,8 +191,6 @@
 .It
 This product includes software developed by Ezra Story.
 .It
-This product includes software developed by Florian Stoehr.
-.It
 This product includes software developed by Frank van der Linden for
 the NetBSD Project.
 .It
@@ -218,16 +213,18 @@
 .It
 This product includes software developed by Hidetoshi Shimokawa.
 .It
-This product includes software developed by Ian W. Dall.
+This product includes software developed by Hubert Feyrer for
+the NetBSD Project.
 .It
-This product includes software developed by Ignatios Souvatzis
-for the NetBSD Project.
+This product includes software developed by Ian W. Dall.
 .It
 This product includes software developed by Internet
 Initiative Japan Inc.
 .It
 This product includes software developed by James R. Maynard III.
 .It
+This product includes software developed by Jared D. McNeill.
+.It
 This product includes software developed by Jason L. Wright
 .It
 This product includes software developed by Jason R. Thorpe
@@ -254,8 +251,15 @@
 .It
 This product includes software developed by Jonathan Stone.
 .It
+This product includes software developed by Jonathan Stone for
+the NetBSD Project.
+.It
 This product includes software developed by Julian Highfield.
 .It
+This product includes software developed by K. Kobayashi.
+.It
+This product includes software developed by K. Kobayashi and H. Shimokawa.
+.It
 This product includes software developed by Kazuhisa Shimizu.
 .It
 This product includes software developed by Kazuki Sakamoto.
@@ -268,9 +272,6 @@
 Ernesti, by Michael van Elst, and by the University of California,
 Berkeley and its contributors.
 .It
-This product includes software developed by LAN Media Corporation
-and its contributors.
-.It
 This product includes software developed by Lloyd Parkes.
 .It
 This product includes software developed by Lutz Vieweg.
@@ -291,6 +292,8 @@
 .It
 This product includes software developed by Markus Wild.
 .It
+This product includes software developed by Marshall M. Midden.
+.It
 This product includes software developed by Masanobu Saitoh.
 .It
 This product includes software developed by Masaru Oki.
@@ -313,6 +316,8 @@
 .It
 This product includes software developed by Niklas Hallqvist.
 .It
+This product includes software developed by Paolo Abeni.
+.It
 This product includes software developed by Paul Kranenburg.
 .It
 This product includes software developed by Paul Mackerras.
@@ -325,6 +330,8 @@
 .It
 This product includes software developed by Philip A. Nelson.
 .It
+This product includes software developed by QUALCOMM Incorporated.
+.It
 This product includes software developed by RiscBSD.
 .It
 This product includes software developed by Roar Thronæs.
@@ -362,6 +369,9 @@
 .It
 This product includes software developed by Terrence R. Lambert.
 .It
+This product includes software developed by Texas A&M University
+and its contributors.
+.It
 This product includes software developed by TooLs GmbH.
 .It