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diff --git a/preface/foreword.xml b/preface/foreword.xml index 63f2c2b47..8ca66cbf1 100644 --- a/preface/foreword.xml +++ b/preface/foreword.xml @@ -1,8 +1,7 @@ <sect1 id="pf-foreword"> <title>Foreword</title> -<para> -Having used a number of different Linux distributions, I was never fully +<para>Having used a number of different Linux distributions, I was never fully satisfied with any of those. I didn't like the way the bootscripts were arranged, I didn't like the way certain programs were configured by default, and more of those things. I came to realize that if I wanted to @@ -10,20 +9,15 @@ be fully satisfied with a Linux system, I would have to build my own system from scratch, ideally using only the source code. Not using pre-compiled packages of any kind. No help from some sort of CD-ROM or bootdisk that would install some basic utilities. I would use my current -Linux system and use that one to build my own. -</para> +Linux system and use that one to build my own.</para> -<para> -This, at one time, wild idea seemed very difficult and at times almost +<para>This, at one time, wild idea seemed very difficult and at times almost impossible. After sorting out all kinds of dependency problems, compile problems, etcetera, a custom-built Linux system was created and fully operational. I called this system an LFS system, which stands for Linux -From Scratch. -</para> +From Scratch.</para> -<para> -I hope all of you will have a great time working on LFS! -</para> +<para>I hope all of you will have a great time working on LFS!</para> <literallayout> -- |