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<title>Introduction</title>
- <para>This chapter includes a list of packages that need to be downloaded for
- building a basic Linux system. The listed version numbers correspond to versions
- of the software that are known to work, and this book is based on their use. We
- highly recommend not using newer versions because the build commands for one
- version may not work with a newer version. The newest package versions may also
- have problems that require work-arounds. These work-arounds will be developed
- and stabilized in the development version of the book.</para>
+ <para>This chapter includes a list of packages that need to be downloaded in
+ order to build a basic Linux system. The listed version numbers correspond to
+ versions of the software that are known to work, and this book is based on
+ their use. We highly recommend against using newer versions because the build
+ commands for one version may not work with a newer version. The newest package
+ versions may also have problems that require work-arounds. These work-arounds
+ will be developed and stabilized in the development version of the
+ book.</para>
<para>Download locations may not always be accessible. If a download
location has changed since this book was published, Google (<ulink
@@ -34,9 +35,9 @@
located on the LFS partition and will be available during all stages
of the building process.</para>
- <para>To create this directory, execute, as user <systemitem
- class="username">root</systemitem>, the following command before starting
- the download session:</para>
+ <para>To create this directory, execute the following command, as user
+ <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>, before starting the download
+ session:</para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>mkdir -v $LFS/sources</userinput></screen>