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Add documentation introduction article #25

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Update introduction.md
Fix a couple links and remove a couple mentions of some TrueOS things.
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beanpole135 committed Feb 13, 2019
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@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ Project Trident is a desktop distribution of [TrueOS](https://www.trueos.org), w
The goal of the Project is to provide a simple, secure, and highly usable FreeBSD experience.
Project Trident is completely independent and financially backed through the generous contributions of the Open Source community.

[Project Trident](https://www.Trident.org) began in 2018 when TrueOS was reorganized into a scaled down server installation of FreeBSD.
[Project Trident](https://project-trident.org) began in 2018 when TrueOS was reorganized into a scaled down server installation of FreeBSD.
The discontinued desktop portion of TrueOS was taken by Ken Moore and J.T. Pennington and rebuilt into Project Trident.

Project Trident is essentially a customized installation of TrueOS and FreeBSD, not a forked derivative.
Project Trident has a simple graphical installer that has partition support and other customization.
Project Trident has a simple graphical installer that has partition support and other customization options.
The underlying TrueOS/FreeBSD system is kept intact and provides a fully functional FreeBSD system.
Other differences from FreeBSD include:

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Other differences from FreeBSD include:

- Project Trident provides many graphical utilities for system configuration and management.

- Project Trident comes pre-configured with a number of automatic scripts connecting USB memory sticks.
- Project Trident comes pre-configured with a number of automatic scripts for dynamically configuring the graphics display system and other desktop-oriented automatic systems such as dynamically suppoerting removable media.

- The Project Trident boot menu supports boot environments or snapshots of the operating system.
The System Update Manager automatically creates a new boot environment before every update.