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Diffstat (limited to 'prologue')
| -rw-r--r-- | prologue/foreword.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | prologue/organization.xml | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | prologue/standards.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | prologue/why.xml | 24 |
4 files changed, 17 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/prologue/foreword.xml b/prologue/foreword.xml index f3f2c4418..33a33ec40 100644 --- a/prologue/foreword.xml +++ b/prologue/foreword.xml @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <title>Foreword</title> -<para>My journey to learn and better understand Linux began +<para>My journey to learn and better understand Linux began back in 1998. I had just installed my first Linux distribution and had quickly become intrigued with the whole concept and philosophy behind Linux.</para> diff --git a/prologue/organization.xml b/prologue/organization.xml index c2c82b63c..81bfca47a 100644 --- a/prologue/organization.xml +++ b/prologue/organization.xml @@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ <title>Part V - Appendices</title> <para>Part V provides information about the book itself including - acronyms and terms, acknowledgments, package dependencies, - a listing of LFS boot scripts, licenses for the distribution of the - book, and a comprehensive index of packages, programs, libraries, + acronyms and terms, acknowledgments, package dependencies, + a listing of LFS boot scripts, licenses for the distribution of the + book, and a comprehensive index of packages, programs, libraries, and scripts.</para> </sect2> diff --git a/prologue/standards.xml b/prologue/standards.xml index 16c4de1dd..9a9f03cf3 100644 --- a/prologue/standards.xml +++ b/prologue/standards.xml @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ POSIX.1-2008</ulink>.</para> </listitem> <listitem> - <para><ulink + <para><ulink url="http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html"> Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) Version 3.0</ulink></para> diff --git a/prologue/why.xml b/prologue/why.xml index 2d469d212..67d0b3b0e 100644 --- a/prologue/why.xml +++ b/prologue/why.xml @@ -23,17 +23,17 @@ <listitem> <para>Acl</para> - <para>This package contains utilities to administer Access - Control Lists, which are used to define more fine-grained - discretionary access rights for files and directories. + <para>This package contains utilities to administer Access + Control Lists, which are used to define more fine-grained + discretionary access rights for files and directories. </para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Attr</para> - <para>This package contains programs for administering - extended attributes on filesystem objects. + <para>This package contains programs for administering + extended attributes on filesystem objects. </para> </listitem> @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ <listitem> <para>Bc</para> - <para>This package provides an arbitrary precision numeric processing language. + <para>This package provides an arbitrary precision numeric processing language. It satisfies a requirement needed when building the Linux kernel.</para> </listitem> @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ <listitem revision="systemd"> <para>D-Bus</para> - <para>This package contains programs to implement a message bus system, + <para>This package contains programs to implement a message bus system, which a simple way for applications to talk to one another. </para> </listitem> @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ <para>Eudev</para> <para>This package is a device manager. It dynamically controls the ownership, - permissions, names, and symbolic links of devices in the /dev directory as + permissions, names, and symbolic links of devices in the /dev directory as devices are added or removed from the system. </para> </listitem> @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ <listitem> <para>Intltool</para> - <para>This package contains tools for extracting translatable + <para>This package contains tools for extracting translatable strings from source files.</para> </listitem> @@ -326,8 +326,8 @@ <listitem> <para>Libcap</para> - <para>This package implements the user-space interfaces to - the POSIX 1003.1e capabilities available in Linux kernels. + <para>This package implements the user-space interfaces to + the POSIX 1003.1e capabilities available in Linux kernels. </para> </listitem> @@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ <para>Zstd</para> <para>This package contains compression and decompression routines - used by some programs. It provides high compression ratios and a very + used by some programs. It provides high compression ratios and a very wide range of compression / speed trade-offs.</para> </listitem> |