[docs] Tweak discussion of BSDs based on feedback from Roman Divacky.

FreeBSD 10.0 and newer have a modern Clang toolchain that should work
well.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@202488 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

diff --git a/docs/GettingStarted.rst b/docs/GettingStarted.rst
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@@ -278,12 +278,13 @@ of writing, this breaks LLD build.
 Getting a Modern Host C++ Toolchain
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-This section mostly applies to Linux and BSDs. On Mac OS X, you should have
+This section mostly applies to Linux and older BSDs. On Mac OS X, you should have
 a sufficiently modern Xcode, or you will likely need to upgrade until you do.
 On Windows, just use Visual Studio 2012 as the host compiler, it is explicitly
-supported and widely available.
+supported and widely available. FreeBSD 10.0 and newer have a modern Clang as
+the system compiler.
 
-However, on Linux and BSDs there are some notable distributions which have
+However, some Linux distributions and some other or older BSDs sometimes have
 extremely old versions of GCC. These steps attempt to help you upgrade you
 compiler even on such a system. However, if at all possible, we encourage you
 to use a recent version of a distribution with a modern system compiler that