Re: "Try and" grammar error on your web page at http://www.debian.org/ports/ia64/.

[Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 04:37:31AM -0800, Bruce Campbell wrote:
> In case you'd like to tidy up a bit, I noticed a grammar error on 
> your site, on the http://www.debian.org/ports/ia64/ page, under "BIOS 
> Versions", as follows:
> 
> "It's possible that you may find an early ia64 machine that needs a 
> BIOS upgrade to work well with Linux.  One particular combination 
> we've heard about is trying to run new kernels on "Lion" systems with 
> really old BIOS versions. To try and make this easier ..."
> 
> "Try and..." is broken grammar.  (Just as "trying and run..." would 
> have been broken grammar.)  It should be:
> 
> "It's possible that you may find an early ia64 machine that needs a 
> BIOS upgrade to work well with Linux.  One particular combination 
> we've heard about is trying to run new kernels on "Lion" systems with 
> really old BIOS versions. To try to make this easier ..."

Thanks for reporting this.  I fixed the sources and web site should be
updated within a few hours.

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