-HDW - Linux is not just another Linux distribution, it is a Distribution
-Building Tool, made of some powerfull scripts that make the whole
-download, build and install procedures very simple... even for newbies.
-Base packages are specially focused on networking, security and development
-which is really convinient for intermidiate / advanced users, but without
-forgetting about packages like XFree86, games, multimedia and office, so
-it's a distribution for Users and Administrators :)
-
-Files in doc/ directory.
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-README - explains some general things and how to obtain the sources
+hdw-linux is mainly a collection of shell scripts automating the process of
+building a linux distribution from scratch. after setting up an appropriate
+toolchain a minimal bases system is build. in case of not crosscompiling target
+specific software is rebuild by doing a chroot to the prepared base system.
+
+additionaly the scripts may help building packages on your working system. file
+and dependency lists are generated after each build. this allows easy and clean
+removement of installed software also caring for dependencies. the tool used for
+that is called hdw-get which aims to be a simple packet manager of the hdw
+distributions.
+
+the intention is to get a scaleable build system and to provide a toolkit
+especially for developing on embedded/foreign - architecture systems. to put it
+in a nutshell, hdw is a 'build from scratch' distribution. as i started my linux
+experiences trying to automate lfs running aross rocklinux (one of the best
+dsitro and 'hacker/s' i ever met) be prepared to hit a mixture of the lfs build
+methods and a rock-like script structure (though not far as advanced as
+rocklinux).
+
+files in doc/ directory
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+
+README - this file