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| author | Archaic <archaic@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2005-06-29 16:24:16 +0000 |
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| committer | Archaic <archaic@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2005-06-29 16:24:16 +0000 |
| commit | 663ecfcc5f04e7c2860b83ef89e49f5e8b68bbbe (patch) | |
| tree | 7c789513e8b75ee906795c4a06600e2e4284638f /prologue | |
| parent | 2ec0d203c3af587beb98406888dca6f6f5283180 (diff) | |
Several minor wording changes (chapters 1 - 5).
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@6232 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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| -rw-r--r-- | prologue/audience.xml | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | prologue/foreword.xml | 4 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/prologue/audience.xml b/prologue/audience.xml index 06da55eed..3f69b4440 100644 --- a/prologue/audience.xml +++ b/prologue/audience.xml @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ <?dbhtml filename="audience.html"?> <para>There are many reasons why somebody would want to read this -book. The principle reason is to install a Linux system straight +book. The principle reason is to install a Linux system from the source code. A question many people raise is, <quote>why go through all the hassle of manually building a Linux system from scratch when you can just download and install an existing @@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ and how programs are installed.</para> <para>Another benefit of LFS is the ability to create a very compact Linux system. When installing a regular distribution, one is often forced to include several programs which are probably never used. -These programs waste precious disk space, or worse, CPU cycles. It is +These programs waste disk space, or worse, CPU cycles. It is not difficult to build an LFS system of less than 100 megabytes (MB), -which is substantially smaller when compared to the majority of existing installations. Does +which is substantially smaller than the majority of existing installations. Does this still sound like a lot of space? A few of us have been working on creating a very small embedded LFS system. We successfully built a system that was specialized to run the Apache web server with diff --git a/prologue/foreword.xml b/prologue/foreword.xml index e7ca79644..7070a4f43 100644 --- a/prologue/foreword.xml +++ b/prologue/foreword.xml @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ installed my first distribution. After working with it for awhile, I discovered issues I definitely would have liked to see improved upon. For example, I didn't like the arrangement of the bootscripts or the way -programs were configured by default. I tried a number of alternate +programs were configured by default. I tried a number of alternative distributions to address these issues, yet each had its pros and cons. Finally, I realized that if I wanted full satisfaction from my Linux system, I would have to build my own from scratch.</para> @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ readers with the background and instruction to design and build custom Linux systems. This book highlights the Linux from Scratch project and the benefits of using this system. Users can dictate all aspects of their system, including directory layout, script setup, and security. -The resulting system will be compiled straight from the source code, +The resulting system will be compiled completely from the source code, and the user will be able to specify where, why, and how programs are installed. This book allows readers to fully customize Linux systems to their own needs and allows users more control over their |