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 .Chapter 0 Foreword
+.X "McKusick, Kirk"
 I have been a long time developer of the Berkeley Software Distributions
-(BSD). My involvement started in 1976 at the University of California at
-Berkeley as an office-mate of Bill Joy. Bill single handedly wrote the code for
-and then started doing the release of BSD. Bill went on to run the Computer
-Systems Research Group (CSRG) which developed and released the first fully
-complete BSD distributions. After Bill's departure to become a founder of Sun
-Microsystems, I eventually rose to head the CSRG and oversee the release of the
-freely redistributable 4.4BSD-Lite. The 4.4BSD-Lite distribution forms the basis
-for all the freely distributable variants of BSD today as well as providing many
-of the utilities found in Linux and commercial UNIX distributions.
+(BSD). My involvement started in 1976, at the University of California at
+Berkeley. I got drawn in as an office-mate of Bill Joy, who single-handedly
+wrote the code for BSD and then started handling its release. Bill went on to
+run the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) which developed and released the
+first fully complete BSD distributions. After Bill's departure to become a
+founder of Sun Microsystems, I eventually rose to head the CSRG and oversee the
+release of the freely redistributable 4.4BSD-Lite. The 4.4BSD-Lite distribution
+forms the basis for all the freely distributable variants of BSD today as well
+as providing many of the utilities found in Linux and commercial UNIX
+distributions.
 .P
 With the release of 4.4BSD-Lite, the University of California at Berkeley ceased
-further BSD development. So, after considering the different BSD development
-groups I decided to do my continued development in FreeBSD as it had the largest
-user community. For the past ten years, I have been a member of the FreeBSD
-developer team.
+further BSD development. After considering the strengths and weaknesses of
+different BSD development groups, I decided to do my continued development in
+FreeBSD because it had the largest user community. For the past ten years,
+therefore, I have been a member of the FreeBSD developer team.
 .P
 I have always felt that it is important to use your own product. For this
 reason, I have always run BSD everywhere: on my workstation, on my
@@ -27,11 +29,11 @@
 have to find tools to do my job that will run on my BSD systems.  It may be
 easier to just run Windows and Power Point to do your presentations, but there
 are an ever increasing number of fine alternatives out there that run on FreeBSD
-and will do the job if you are willing to seek them out.
+such as the open source OpenOffice.org suite or MagicPoint.
 .P 
 In the old days, there were not very many people working on the BSD
-software. Few BSD developers meant that it was easy to keep up with what BSD
-could do and how to manage your system. In the last decade there has been an
+software. This constraint on BSD development made it easy to keep up with what
+BSD could do and how to manage your system. But the last decade has seen an
 exponential growth in the open source movement. The result has been a huge
 increase in the number of people working on FreeBSD and an even larger increase
 in the number of applications and tools that have been ported to run on
@@ -41,28 +43,28 @@
 Greg Lehey has done a wonderful job with this book of helping those of us that
 want to fully utilize the FreeBSD system to do so without having to devote our
 entire lives figuring how. He has gone through and figured out each of the
-different tasks that you might call on your system to do.  He has identified the
+different tasks that you might ask your system to do.  He has identified the
 software that you need to do the task.  He explains how to configure it for your
 operational needs.  He tells you how to monitor the resulting subsystem to make
 sure it is working as desired. And, he helps you to identify and fix problems
 that arise.
 .P 
 The book starts with the basics of getting the FreeBSD system up and running on
-your hardware including laptops, workstations, and servers. It then explains how
-to customize an installation for your personal needs. This personalization
-includes the downloading and operating the more than 8000 software packages in
-the FreeBSD ports collection. The book also includes a very comprehensive set of
-systems administration information including the setup and operation of
-printers, local and external networking, the domain name system, the NFS (UNIX)
-remote filesystems electronic mail, web surfing and hosting, and dial-up for
-FAX, remote login, and point-to-point network connections.
+your hardware, including laptops, workstations, and servers. It then explains
+how to customize an installation for your personal needs. This personalization
+includes downloading and operating the most important of the more than 8000
+software packages in the FreeBSD ports collection. The book also includes a very
+comprehensive set of systems administration information, including the setup and
+operation of printers, local and external networking, the domain name system,
+the NFS and Samba remote filesystems, electronic mail, web surfing and hosting,
+and dial-up for FAX, remote login, and point-to-point network connections.
 .P
 In short, this book provides everything you need to know about the FreeBSD
 system from the day you first pick up the software through the day you have a
-full suite of machines covering your complete range of computing needs. There is
-a reason that this book is so popular and that is because, as its titles says,
-it is The Complete FreeBSD. I am very happy to see this revision which once
-again fulfills that mandate.
+full suite of machines.  It covers your complete range of computing needs. There
+is a reason that this book is so popular: as its title says, it is The Complete
+FreeBSD. I am very happy to see this revision which once again fulfills that
+mandate.
 .P
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