diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml
index 521f51d473..bb1dab79a8 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@
 	to factory automation, inventory control to azimuth correction of
 	remote satellite antennae; if it can be done with a commercial
 	Unix product then it is more than likely that you can do it with
-	FreeBSD too!  FreeBSD also benefits significantly from the
+	FreeBSD too!  FreeBSD also benefits significantly from
 	literally thousands of high quality applications developed by
 	research centers and universities around the world, often
 	available at little to no cost. Commercial applications are also
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@
 	</indexterm>
 	<indexterm>
 	  <primary>X Window System</primary>
-	  <secondary>Accellerated-X</secondary>
+	  <secondary>Accelerated-X</secondary>
 	</indexterm>
 	<listitem>
 	  <para><emphasis>X Window workstation:</emphasis> FreeBSD is a
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@
 	    using the freely available XFree86 server or one of the
 	    excellent commercial servers provided by X Inside.  Unlike an
 	    X terminal, FreeBSD allows many applications to be run
-	    locally, if desired, thus relieving the burden on a central
+	    locally if desired, thus relieving the burden on a central
 	    server.  FreeBSD can even boot <quote>diskless</quote>, making
 	    individual workstations even cheaper and easier to
 	    administer.</para>
@@ -754,7 +754,7 @@
 	      is one of the functions of the core team, as is the
 	      recruitment of new core team members as others move on.
 	      The current core team was elected from a pool of committer
-	      candidates in October 2000.  Elections are held every 2 years.
+	      candidates in June 2002.  Elections are held every 2 years.
 	      </para>
 
 	    <para>Some core team members also have specific areas of
@@ -835,13 +835,14 @@
       </indexterm>
       <para>FreeBSD is a freely available, full source 4.4BSD-Lite based
         release for Intel i386, i486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Celeron,
-        Pentium&nbsp;II, Pentium&nbsp;III (or compatible) and DEC Alpha based computer
+        Pentium&nbsp;II, Pentium&nbsp;III, Pentium&nbsp;IV (or compatible), Xeon, DEC Alpha and SPARC64 based computer
         systems.  It is based primarily on software from U.C. Berkeley's
         CSRG group, with some enhancements from NetBSD, OpenBSD, 386BSD, and
         the Free Software Foundation.</para>
 
       <para>Since our release of FreeBSD&nbsp;2.0 in late 94, the performance,
         feature set, and stability of FreeBSD has improved dramatically.
+	<!-- XXX is the rest of this paragraph still true ? -->
         The largest change is a revamped virtual memory system with a merged
         VM/file buffer cache that not only increases performance, but also
         reduces FreeBSD's memory footprint, making a 5&nbsp;MB configuration a
@@ -863,7 +864,7 @@
         were over &os.numports; ports!  The list of ports ranges from
         http (WWW) servers, to games, languages, editors, and almost
         everything in between.  The entire ports collection requires
-        approximately 100&nbsp;MB of storage, all ports being expressed as
+        approximately 170&nbsp;MB of storage, all ports being expressed as
         <quote>deltas</quote> to their original sources.  This makes
         it much easier for us to update ports, and greatly reduces the
         disk space demands made by the older 1.0 ports collection.  To