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@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ www.au.linuxfromscratch.org mirror.
VA Linux
Systems who, on behalf of
Linux.com, donated a VA Linux 420 (former StartX SP2) workstation
-owards this project.
+towards this project.
Johan
Lenglet <johan@linuxfromscratch.org> for leading the French