From b822811980a5f82726cb641cbeff66be9eb6d92a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Hymers Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 19:45:10 +0000 Subject: XML changes git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@827 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- preface/foreword.xml | 16 +++++----------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'preface/foreword.xml') 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 @@ Foreword - -Having used a number of different Linux distributions, I was never fully +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. - +Linux system and use that one to build my own. - -This, at one time, wild idea seemed very difficult and at times almost +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. - +From Scratch. - -I hope all of you will have a great time working on LFS! - +I hope all of you will have a great time working on LFS! -- -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf