Small correction about architectures near the beginning of the page

[duckyondiscord]

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[bsdjhb]

A good clarification, but I might reword it a bit further as:

The `amd64` indicates that the system in this example is running the port of FreeBSD to the 64-bit x86 architecture.

[igalic]

note that while ducky is a perfectly fine name, we don't accept contributions from emails that we can't actually email to, especially x@users.noreply.github.com

[duckyondiscord]

note that while ducky is a perfectly fine name, we don't accept contributions from emails that we can't actually email to, especially x@users.noreply.github.com

Alright well you can email me at duccywastaken@pm.me then, I should add it to my github profile.

[duckyondiscord]

A good clarification, but I might reword it a bit further as:

The `amd64` indicates that the system in this example is running the port of FreeBSD to the 64-bit x86 architecture.

I personally think that's unnecessarily complicating it a little. You can make that change if you want but I think simpler's better in this case.

[grahamperrin]

#281 (comment)

… the port of FreeBSD to …

+1

I get it, however …

… if I close my eyes, intentionally not reminding myself of what's already at page, I imagine https://www.freebsd.org/about/ being a good/better place for something along the lines of:

FreeBSD and much of the complementary software in its ports collection is ported to ….

(Clumsily worded, but you get the idea.)

If a newcomer dives straight into the 'FreeBSD Basics' chapter with no prior knowledge of FreeBSD, no prior knowledge of the concept of porting: the reader might look away to https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/glossary/#_p or https://www.freebsd.org/ports/ for a meaning of the word port.

HTH, happy to discuss in Matrix or IRC (to not derail things here).

[duckyondiscord]

Is there anything else I need to do here?

[bsdjhb]

A good clarification, but I might reword it a bit further as:

The `amd64` indicates that the system in this example is running the port of FreeBSD to the 64-bit x86 architecture.

I personally think that's unnecessarily complicating it a little. You can make that change if you want but I think simpler's better in this case.

One thing to note is that we use "64-bit x86" in other places to refer to amd64 (e.g. https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/) so that phrase is more consistent with existing language than "x86 64-bit". The other thing is that "version" is somewhat ambiguous in this case as "version" in FreeBSD usually means the release version (e.g. 13.2 vs 14.0) rather than the platform (which is what "amd64" vs "i386" is about). That is a pre-existing bug though of course. :) If we want to avoid the term "port" then perhaps

The `amd64` indicates that FreeBSD is running on a 64-bit x86 system.

I think the second commit is probably a bit too short as the existing language aims to be a bit of a tutorial explaining what various words mean, so keeping it verbose to match the other sentences seems more consistent.

[bsdjhb]

Merged in 45ee577. Thanks!