8 files changed, 33 insertions, 35 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/binutils-inst.xml b/chapter06/binutils-inst.xml
index 79e38c178..8adbe9dbd 100644
--- a/chapter06/binutils-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/binutils-inst.xml
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
 <sect2><title>Installation of Binutils</title>
 
 <para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its
-default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). Binutils
-is best left alone. Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables
-that override default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we
-recommend unsetting or modifying them when building binutils.</para>
+default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options).
+Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables that override
+default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we recommend unsetting
+or modifying them when building binutils.</para>
 
 <para>It is recommended by the Binutils installation documentation to build
 Binutils outside of the source directory:</para>
diff --git a/chapter06/config-shadowpwd.xml b/chapter06/config-shadowpwd.xml
index bb10363b5..2ef48e9e5 100644
--- a/chapter06/config-shadowpwd.xml
+++ b/chapter06/config-shadowpwd.xml
@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@
 <sect2><title>Configuring Shadow Password Suite</title>
 
 <para>This package contains utilities to modify users' passwords, add
-or delete users and groups, and the like. We're not going to explain 
-what 'password shadowing' means. A full explanation can be found in the doc/HOWTO
+or delete users and groups, and the like. We're not going to explain what
+'password shadowing' means. A full explanation can be found in the doc/HOWTO
 file within the unpacked shadow password suite's source tree. There's one 
-thing to keep in mind if you decide to use shadow support: that 
-programs that need to verify passwords (for example xdm, ftp daemons, 
-pop3 daemons) need to be 'shadow-compliant', that is they need to
-be able to work with shadowed passwords.</para>
+thing to keep in mind if you decide to use shadow support: programs that
+need to verify passwords (for example xdm, ftp daemons, pop3 daemons) need
+to be 'shadow-compliant', that is they need to be able to work with 
+hadowed passwords.</para>
 
 <para>To enable shadowed passwords, run the following command:</para>
 
diff --git a/chapter06/gcc-inst.xml b/chapter06/gcc-inst.xml
index eed1380c3..e939e3ff5 100644
--- a/chapter06/gcc-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/gcc-inst.xml
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
 <title>Installation of GCC</title>
 
 <para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its
-default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). GCC is
-best left alone. Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables
-that override default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we
-recommend unsetting or modifying them when building GCC.</para>
+default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options).
+Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables that override
+default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we recommend unsetting
+or modifying them when building GCC.</para>
 
 <para>We will be building the C and C++ compilers at this time, so you'll
 need to unpack both the gcc-core and gcc-g++ tarballs. Other compilers are
diff --git a/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml b/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml
index 147f171cb..e5af3774c 100644
--- a/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ the glibc-&glibc-version; directory, not in /usr/src as you normally
 would do.</para>
 
 <para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its
-default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). Glibc
-is best left alone. Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables
-that override default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we
-recommend unsetting or modifying them when building Glibc.</para>
+default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options).
+Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables that override
+default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we recommend unsetting
+or modifying them when building Glibc.</para>
 
 <para>Basically, compiling Glibc in any other way than the book suggests
 is putting your system at a very high risk.</para>
diff --git a/chapter06/glibc-pass2-inst.xml b/chapter06/glibc-pass2-inst.xml
index 92e9a282f..5fde85f3b 100644
--- a/chapter06/glibc-pass2-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/glibc-pass2-inst.xml
@@ -19,21 +19,19 @@ LFS. Much like GCC's bootstrap installation method).</para>
 
 <para>We'll also install the linuxthreads man pages here. As you may
 recall, during the first installation of Glibc this wasn't possible because
-Perl wasn't installed yet. Everything we need to install the Glibc
-linuxthread man pages is present now, so we'll take care of this too
-now.</para>
+Perl wasn't installed yet. Now that everything needed to install the Glibc
+linuxthreads man pages is present as well, we will install those too.</para>
 
-<para>Before starting to install glibc, you must cd into the
+<para>Before starting to install Glibc, you must cd into the
 glibc-&glibc-version; directory and unpack glibc-linuxthreads inside
 the glibc-&glibc-version; directory, not in /usr/src as you normally
 would do.</para>
 
 <para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its
-default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). Glibc
-is best left alone. Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables
-that override default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we
-recommend unsetting or modifying them when building Glibc. You have
-been warned.</para>
+default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options).
+Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables that override
+default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we recommend unsetting
+or modifying them when building Glibc. You have been warned.</para>
 
 <para>Basically, compiling Glibc in any other way than the book suggests
 is putting your system at very high risk.</para>
diff --git a/chapter06/psmisc-inst.xml b/chapter06/psmisc-inst.xml
index eabaa85ab..682f64602 100644
--- a/chapter06/psmisc-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/psmisc-inst.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 <sect2>
 <title>Installation of Psmisc</title>
 
-<para>Prepare Psmic to be compiled:</para>
+<para>Prepare Psmisc to be compiled:</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/</userinput></screen></para>
 
diff --git a/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml b/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml
index 0568c1e7b..87dabb10c 100644
--- a/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml
+++ b/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml
@@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ audio:x:11:
 <userinput>EOF</userinput></screen></para>
 
 <para>The created groups aren't part of any standard -- they are the groups
-that the MAKEDEV script in the next section uses.
-Besides the group "root", the LSB recommends only a group "bin", with a GID
-of 1, be present. All other group names and GIDs can be chosen freely by
-the user, as well-written packages don't depend on GID numbers but use the
-group's name.</para>
+that the MAKEDEV script in the next section uses. Besides the group "root",
+the LSB (<ulink url="http://www.linuxbase.org"/>) (recommends only a group
+"bin", with a GID of 1, be present. All other group names and GIDs can be
+chosen freely by the user, as well-written packages don't depend on GID
+numbers but use the group's name.</para>
 
 </sect1>
 
diff --git a/chapter06/utillinux-inst.xml b/chapter06/utillinux-inst.xml
index 6d0232cf1..d3bb7afa5 100644
--- a/chapter06/utillinux-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/utillinux-inst.xml
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 <title>FHS compliance notes</title>
 
 <para>The FHS recommends that we use /var/lib/hwclock, instead of the
-usual /etc, as the location of the adjtime file. To make hwclock, which
-is part of the util-linux package, FHS-compliant, run the following:</para>
+usual /etc, as the location of the adjtime file. To make hwclock
+FHS-compliant, run the following:</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>cp hwclock/hwclock.c{,.backup} &amp;&amp;
 sed 's%etc/adjtime%var/lib/hwclock/adjtime%' \