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 # Anbox
 
-Anbox is container based approach to boot a full Android system on a
-regular GNU Linux system like Ubuntu.
+Anbox is container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a
+regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.
 
 ## Overview
 
 Anbox uses Linux namespaces (user, pid, uts, net, mount, ipc) to run a
 full Android system in a container and provide Android applications on
-any GNU Linux based platform.
+any GNU/Linux-based platform.
 
 The Android inside the container has no direct access to any hardware.
 All hardware access is going through the anbox daemon on the host. We're
-reusing what Android implemented within the QEMU based emulator for Open
-GL ES accelerated rendering. The Android system inside the container uses
+reusing what Android implemented within the QEMU-based emulator for OpenGL
+ES accelerated rendering. The Android system inside the container uses
 different pipes to communicate with the host system and sends all hardware
 access commands through these.
 
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ Running Anbox from a local build requires a few more things you need to know
 about. Please have a look at the ["Runtime Setup"](docs/runtime-setup.md)
 documentation.
 
-## documentation
+## Documentation
 
 You will find additional documentation for Anbox in the *docs* subdirectory
 of the project source.
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ If you have found an issue with Anbox, please [file a bug](https://github.com/an
 ## Get in Touch
 
 If you want to get in contact with the developers please feel free to join the
-*#anbox* IRC channel on [FreeNode](https://freenode.net/).
+*#anbox* IRC channel on [Freenode](https://freenode.net/).
 
 ## Copyright and Licensing
 
@@ -195,5 +195,5 @@ Anbox reuses code from other projects like the Android QEMU emulator. These
 projects are available in the external/ subdirectory with the licensing terms
 included.
 
-The anbox source itself, if not stated differently in the relevant source files,
+The Anbox source itself, if not stated differently in the relevant source files,
 is licensed under the terms of the GPLv3 license.