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docs/manual: Slightly improve the introduction

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Thomas Petazzoni 12 years ago
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 About Buildroot
 About Buildroot
 ===============
 ===============
 
 
-Buildroot provides a full-featured environment for cross-development.
-Buildroot is able to generate a cross-compilation toolchain, a root
-filesystem, a Linux kernel image and a bootloader for your target.
-Buildroot can be used for any combination of these options,
-independently.
+Buildroot is a tool that simplifies and automates the process of
+building a complete Linux system for an embedded system, using
+cross-compilation.
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+In order to achieve this, Buildroot is able to generate a
+cross-compilation toolchain, a root filesystem, a Linux kernel image
+and a bootloader for your target. Buildroot can be used for any
+combination of these options, independently (you can for example use
+an existing cross-compilation toolchain, and build only your root
+filesystem with Buildroot).
 
 
 Buildroot is useful mainly for people working with embedded systems.
 Buildroot is useful mainly for people working with embedded systems.
 Embedded systems often use processors that are not the regular x86
 Embedded systems often use processors that are not the regular x86