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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 |