Typos, whitespace and capitalization fixes (A-F).

56 files changed, 70 insertions, 70 deletions

diff --git a/MOVED b/MOVED
index a82f482ee38d..04e01492cc1a 100644
--- a/MOVED
+++ b/MOVED
@@ -7722,7 +7722,7 @@ security/rubygem-net-ssh27||2015-07-20|Has expired: not used by other ports anym
 graphics/kuickshow-kde4||2015-07-21|Has expired: Broken for more than 6 months
 graphics/sng||2015-07-21|Has expired: Broken for more than 6 months
 japanese/netype||2015-07-21|Has expired: Broken for more than 6 months
-databases/p5-DBD-Pg32|databases/p5-DBD-Pg|2015-07-22|Has expired: Use databases/p5-DBD-Pg instead, compatability probles are fixed
+databases/p5-DBD-Pg32|databases/p5-DBD-Pg|2015-07-22|Has expired: Use databases/p5-DBD-Pg instead, compatibility probles are fixed
 textproc/py-asciinema|textproc/asciinema|2015-07-23|Has expired: use textproc/asciinema instead
 devel/libiomp5-devel|devel/llvm-devel|2015-07-24|Merged with devel/llvm-devel
 devel/amd64-binutils||2015-07-25|No real use
diff --git a/accessibility/caribou/pkg-descr b/accessibility/caribou/pkg-descr
index 9176f7498759..8f6bbc8ac27d 100644
--- a/accessibility/caribou/pkg-descr
+++ b/accessibility/caribou/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Caribou is an input assistive technology intended for swithc and
+Caribou is an input assistive technology intended for switch and
 pointer users.
 
 Features:
diff --git a/archivers/unalz/pkg-descr b/archivers/unalz/pkg-descr
index cd18a3bfacd7..84f0a48d2ebc 100644
--- a/archivers/unalz/pkg-descr
+++ b/archivers/unalz/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Unalz is a BSD-licensed unarchiver for AlZip format which requires
-proprietary and win32-only software but widely used in Korea.
+proprietary and Win32-only software but widely used in Korea.
 
 WWW: http://www.kipple.pe.kr/win/unalz/
diff --git a/audio/libmodplug/pkg-descr b/audio/libmodplug/pkg-descr
index 59848669b61c..065a664f8c30 100644
--- a/audio/libmodplug/pkg-descr
+++ b/audio/libmodplug/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 This is a library based on the mod rendering code from ModPlug, a
-popular windows mod player written by Olivier Lapicque, found at
+popular Windows mod player written by Olivier Lapicque, found at
 http://www.modplug.com.  It is required for ModPlug-XMMS (in the
 xmms-modplug package).
 
diff --git a/benchmarks/tcpblast/pkg-descr b/benchmarks/tcpblast/pkg-descr
index 2f2c9621609e..f6ff2560eff6 100644
--- a/benchmarks/tcpblast/pkg-descr
+++ b/benchmarks/tcpblast/pkg-descr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-TCPBLAST measures the throughput of a tcp connection.
+TCPBLAST measures the throughput of a TCP connection.
diff --git a/biology/iolib/pkg-descr b/biology/iolib/pkg-descr
index ed892b9484e5..f24eca9853db 100644
--- a/biology/iolib/pkg-descr
+++ b/biology/iolib/pkg-descr
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ Io_lib is a library of file reading and writing code to provide a
 general purpose trace file (and Experiment File) reading interface.
 The programmer simply calls the (eg) read_reading to create a "Read"
 C structure with the data loaded into memory. It has been compiled
-and tested on a variety of unix systems, MacOS X and MS Windows.
+and tested on a variety of Unix systems, MacOS X and MS Windows.
 
 WWW: http://staden.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/cad/cura-engine/pkg-descr b/cad/cura-engine/pkg-descr
index 6fbeda45b503..b8510cde6f02 100644
--- a/cad/cura-engine/pkg-descr
+++ b/cad/cura-engine/pkg-descr
@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@ The CuraEngine is a C++ console application for 3D printing GCode generation.
 It has been made as better and faster alternative to the old Skeinforge engine.
 
 The CuraEngine is pure C++ and uses Clipper from
-http://www.angusj.com/delphi/clipper.php. There are no external dependences
+http://www.angusj.com/delphi/clipper.php. There are no external dependencies
 and Clipper is included in the source code without modifications.
 
 This is just a console application for GCode generation. For a full graphical
 application look at https://github.com/daid/Cura with is the graphical
 frontend for CuraEngine.
 
-The CuraEngine can be used seperately or in other applications.
+The CuraEngine can be used separately or in other applications.
 Feel free to add it to your application. But to take note of the License.
 
 WWW: http://wiki.ultimaker.com/Cura
diff --git a/chinese/qe/pkg-descr b/chinese/qe/pkg-descr
index bf80bf60415b..60faf1e3ac12 100644
--- a/chinese/qe/pkg-descr
+++ b/chinese/qe/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 QE is a PE2-like editor program under U*nix (PE2 is an editor software
-undePC-DOS), I named it QE for the reason that the P is followed by Q,
+under PC-DOS), I named it QE for the reason that the P is followed by Q,
 hope it can exceed PE2 :-), and I release this program under the terms
 of General Public License (GPL)
 
diff --git a/chinese/sunpinyin/pkg-descr b/chinese/sunpinyin/pkg-descr
index c3f5f6d8e3fb..5e010cf93aa0 100644
--- a/chinese/sunpinyin/pkg-descr
+++ b/chinese/sunpinyin/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SunPinyin is a statistical language model based Chinese input method, which
 was firstly developed by Sun Beijing Globalization team, and opensource'd
-to community with opensolaris project, with LGPLv2 and CDDL dual-licenses.
+to community with OpenSolaris project, with LGPLv2 and CDDL dual-licenses.
 
 WWW: http://code.google.com/p/sunpinyin/
diff --git a/comms/bluegps/pkg-descr b/comms/bluegps/pkg-descr
index de87cc4d5011..73cb4c8b28e4 100644
--- a/comms/bluegps/pkg-descr
+++ b/comms/bluegps/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-BlueGPS is a simple (freebsd native) command line tool to download
+BlueGPS is a simple (FreeBSD native) command line tool to download
 datalogs from the Royaltek RBT-3000 bluetooth GPS receiver over a
 bluetooth link.
 
diff --git a/comms/concordance/pkg-descr b/comms/concordance/pkg-descr
index 139799fb8956..1f94c05c1d5e 100644
--- a/comms/concordance/pkg-descr
+++ b/comms/concordance/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 The concordance software suite allows you to program your Logitech Harmony
-remote using a configuration object retreived from the harmony website. The
+remote using a configuration object retrieved from the harmony website. The
 Logitech Harmony is a highly configuration universal remote than can control
 most multimedia devices.
diff --git a/comms/cwdaemon/pkg-descr b/comms/cwdaemon/pkg-descr
index 0123c28ae183..afa84c2d43aa 100644
--- a/comms/cwdaemon/pkg-descr
+++ b/comms/cwdaemon/pkg-descr
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-Cwdaemon is a small daemon which uses the pc parallel or serial port and a
+Cwdaemon is a small daemon which uses the PC parallel or serial port and a
 simple transistor switch to output morse code to a transmitter from a text
 message sent to it via the UDP Internet protocol. 
diff --git a/comms/hf/pkg-descr b/comms/hf/pkg-descr
index 2ca9b494ea51..4d55ebbf92ae 100644
--- a/comms/hf/pkg-descr
+++ b/comms/hf/pkg-descr
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-hf is a gtk+-based linux ham radio fsk digimode program, which can do also
+hf is a gtk+-based Linux ham radio fsk digimode program, which can do also
 the realtime ARQ modes pactor 1, amtor, gtor without a ptc, only with a
-soundcard and a pc and linux(FreeBSD), all of which need not be the newest.
+soundcard and a PC and Linux (FreeBSD), all of which need not be the newest.
 The core of hf, the heart of the program (hfkernel) is a real master-piece
 of code, it has originally been made by Tom Sailer, many thanks Tom!
 hf can also do MT63 and has a CW elbug function. 
diff --git a/comms/py-lirc/pkg-descr b/comms/py-lirc/pkg-descr
index e324f9a6c63d..3e9e214f5d7a 100644
--- a/comms/py-lirc/pkg-descr
+++ b/comms/py-lirc/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Python module to interact with remote controls via lirc. Currently only
-linux version exists, but porters for winLirc or other systems are
+Linux version exists, but porters for winLirc or other systems are
 welcome.
 
 WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pylirc/
diff --git a/comms/qsstv/pkg-descr b/comms/qsstv/pkg-descr
index 5b0e237f7169..7d4175563899 100644
--- a/comms/qsstv/pkg-descr
+++ b/comms/qsstv/pkg-descr
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-Amateur Radio SSTV/FAX transmit and reception program for unix
+Amateur Radio SSTV/FAX transmit and reception program for Unix.
 
 WWW: http://users.telenet.be/on4qz/
diff --git a/converters/fconv/pkg-descr b/converters/fconv/pkg-descr
index e9ef327af5e4..c51c5154eb52 100644
--- a/converters/fconv/pkg-descr
+++ b/converters/fconv/pkg-descr
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-   As well as being a work-alike for the BSDI utility mentioned in the
+As well as being a work-alike for the BSDI utility mentioned in the
 doscmd man page, dos2bsd (and bsd2dos), fconv supports conversion to
 and from Macintosh type files (which use only '\r'). 
diff --git a/converters/fondu/pkg-descr b/converters/fondu/pkg-descr
index 9fef3e7cffc5..58602535c5ad 100644
--- a/converters/fondu/pkg-descr
+++ b/converters/fondu/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-A set of programs to interconvert between mac font formats and pfb, ttf, otf
-and bdf files on unix
+A set of programs to interconvert between Mac font formats and PFB, TTF, OTF
+and BDF files on Unix.
 
 WWW:	http://fondu.sourceforge.net/
diff --git a/deskutils/cal/pkg-descr b/deskutils/cal/pkg-descr
index 7df81b92dffc..7e91678861e0 100644
--- a/deskutils/cal/pkg-descr
+++ b/deskutils/cal/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-CAL is a nicely-enhanced version of the unix `cal' command.
+CAL is a nicely-enhanced version of the Unix `cal' command.
 Features:
 
  * Hilights today's date when displaying a monthly calendar.
@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@ Features:
  * Completely configurable colors -- eight separate color attributes.
 
  * No ANSI driver needed for colors, and the output may be redirected
-   anywhere, just like the unix version.  However, ANSI color control may
-   be enabled (e.g. for unix) with a #define in the source code.
+   anywhere, just like the Unix version.  However, ANSI color control may
+   be enabled (e.g. for Unix) with a #define in the source code.
 
- * Commandline-compatible with unix `cal' command, but with several
+ * Commandline-compatible with Unix `cal' command, but with several
    enhanced switch settings.
 
 Requests, bug reports, suggestions, donations, proposals for
diff --git a/deskutils/mencal/pkg-descr b/deskutils/mencal/pkg-descr
index 7a4d0c637828..942232353fe6 100644
--- a/deskutils/mencal/pkg-descr
+++ b/deskutils/mencal/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Mencal is a simple variation of the well-known unix command cal.
+Mencal is a simple variation of the well-known Unix command cal.
 The main difference is that you can have some periodically
 repeating days highlighted in color. This can be used to track
 menstruation (or other) cycles conveniently.
diff --git a/deskutils/plasma-applet-serverstatuswidget/pkg-descr b/deskutils/plasma-applet-serverstatuswidget/pkg-descr
index c0782e1306f9..be7964dc5e86 100644
--- a/deskutils/plasma-applet-serverstatuswidget/pkg-descr
+++ b/deskutils/plasma-applet-serverstatuswidget/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Server Status Widget is a KDE 4 Plasma applet that lets you monitor one or more
-servers via pings, TCP connects or custom unix commands at a configurable
+servers via pings, TCP connects or custom Unix commands at a configurable
 interval.  The icon changes if a server does not respond to a check, optionally
 triggering configurable KDE notifications.
 
diff --git a/devel/R-cran-Rcpp/pkg-descr b/devel/R-cran-Rcpp/pkg-descr
index 3de69dad7aa9..f52eb695c352 100644
--- a/devel/R-cran-Rcpp/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/R-cran-Rcpp/pkg-descr
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ provided by R.
 Rcpp provides matching C++ classes for a large number of basic R
 data types. Hence, a package author can keep his data in normal R
 data structures without having to worry about translation or
-transfering to C++. At the same time, the data structures can be
+transferring to C++. At the same time, the data structures can be
 accessed as easily at the C++ level, and used in the normal manner.
 
 The mapping of data types works in both directions. It is as
diff --git a/devel/bcc/pkg-descr b/devel/bcc/pkg-descr
index 52c67a588f69..a671eeb5208c 100644
--- a/devel/bcc/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/bcc/pkg-descr
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ This is Bruce Evans' C compiler and binutils package.
 
 
 Either the compiler as the assembler are able to generate 16-bit code.
-Hence it's possible to compile BIOS and DOS code under unix.
+Hence it's possible to compile BIOS and DOS code under Unix.
 
 The C compiler does understand K&R1 syntax, with a few restrictions
 regarding bit fields.  See the file work/bcc/bcc-cc1/bcc.bugs for
diff --git a/devel/cmake-fedora/pkg-descr b/devel/cmake-fedora/pkg-descr
index 4c973be787b9..0f2e4f753ab2 100644
--- a/devel/cmake-fedora/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/cmake-fedora/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 cmake-fedora consists a set of cmake modules that provideds helper macros and
-targets for linux, especially fedora developers.
+targets for Linux, especially Fedora developers.
 
 WWW: https://fedorahosted.org/cmake-fedora/
diff --git a/devel/go-termbox/pkg-descr b/devel/go-termbox/pkg-descr
index fc7e3b34b93f..c4e7a76cc0f2 100644
--- a/devel/go-termbox/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/go-termbox/pkg-descr
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Termbox is a library that provides a minimalistic API which allows the
 programmer to write text-based user interfaces.  The library is
 crossplatform and has both terminal-based implementations on *nix
 operating systems and a winapi console based implementation for
-windows operating systems.  The basic idea is an abstraction of the
+Windows operating systems.  The basic idea is an abstraction of the
 greatest common subset of features available on all major terminals
 and other terminal-like APIs in a minimalistic fashion.  Small API
 means it is easy to implement, test, maintain and learn it, that's
diff --git a/devel/guikachu/pkg-descr b/devel/guikachu/pkg-descr
index 72b5192eeba6..b5ea5e9d9533 100644
--- a/devel/guikachu/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/guikachu/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Guikachu is a resource editor for PalmOS(tm) systems. It allows you
 to visually create dialog boxes, menu bars and windows for your
-Palm application in the GNOME  desktop environment.
+Palm application in the GNOME desktop environment.
 
 WWW: http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/guikachu/
diff --git a/devel/hgview/pkg-descr b/devel/hgview/pkg-descr
index d617ede6b08e..c93865350d6d 100644
--- a/devel/hgview/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/hgview/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 A faster implementation of hgk using pyqt4. Its primary purpose
-was to be able to browse the linux kernel mercurial repository.
+was to be able to browse the Linux kernel mercurial repository.
 
 WWW: http://www.logilab.org/project/hgview/
diff --git a/devel/hs-DrIFT/pkg-descr b/devel/hs-DrIFT/pkg-descr
index 7652d6136453..74154e989adb 100644
--- a/devel/hs-DrIFT/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/hs-DrIFT/pkg-descr
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ then appended to the bottom of the input file.  The rules are expressed
 as Haskell code, and it is intended that the user can add new rules as
 required.  DrIFT automates instance derivation for classes that aren't
 supported by the standard compilers.  In addition, instances can be
-produced in seperate modules to that containing the type declaration.
+produced in separate modules to that containing the type declaration.
 This allows instances to be derived for a type after the original module
 has been compiled.  As a bonus, simple utility functions can also be
 produced from a type.
diff --git a/devel/hs-system-fileio/pkg-descr b/devel/hs-system-fileio/pkg-descr
index 0f8e8a1551b4..09b6324dc148 100644
--- a/devel/hs-system-fileio/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/hs-system-fileio/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is a small wrapper around the "directory", "unix", and "Win32"
+This is a small wrapper around the "directory", "Unix", and "Win32"
 packages, for use with "system-filepath".  It provides a consistent API
 to the various versions of these packages distributed with different
 versions of GHC.  In particular, this library supports working with
diff --git a/devel/hs-unix-compat/pkg-descr b/devel/hs-unix-compat/pkg-descr
index 81a398a04130..d7b995ed6eac 100644
--- a/devel/hs-unix-compat/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/hs-unix-compat/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-This package provides portable implementations of parts of the unix package.
-This package re-exports the unix package when available. When it isn't
+This package provides portable implementations of parts of the Unix package.
+This package re-exports the Unix package when available. When it isn't
 available, portable implementations are used.
 
 WWW: http://github.com/jystic/unix-compat
diff --git a/devel/libeio/pkg-descr b/devel/libeio/pkg-descr
index ebd62377e8b6..aff64edff783 100644
--- a/devel/libeio/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/libeio/pkg-descr
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ similar style and spirit as libev.
 
 Features include: asynchronous read, write, open, close, stat, unlink,
 fdatasync, mknod, readdir etc. (basically the full POSIX API), sendfile
-(native on solaris, linux, hp-ux, freebsd, emulated everywehere else),
-readahead (emulated where not available).  It is fully event-library
+(native on Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, FreeBSD, emulated everywhere else),
+read-ahead (emulated where not available).  It is fully event-library
 agnostic and can easily be integrated into any event-library (or used
 standalone, even in polling mode).
 
diff --git a/devel/libexecinfo/pkg-descr b/devel/libexecinfo/pkg-descr
index e5c51c9c4c27..ff5b94b5e983 100644
--- a/devel/libexecinfo/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/libexecinfo/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 This is a quick-n-dirty BSD licensed clone of backtrace facility found
-in the GNU libc, mainly intended for porting linuxish code to BSD
+in the GNU libc, mainly intended for porting Linuxish code to BSD
 platforms, however it can be used at any platform which has a gcc
 compiler.
 
diff --git a/devel/librelp/pkg-descr b/devel/librelp/pkg-descr
index 2fdecb3c0db2..d7445ee7b16b 100644
--- a/devel/librelp/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/librelp/pkg-descr
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ when connections break and a peer becomes unavailable. The current
 version of RELP has a minimal window of opportunity for message
 duplication after a session has been broken due to network problems.
 In this case, a few messages may be duplicated (a problem that also
-exists with plain tcp syslog). Future versions of RELP will address
+exists with plain TCP syslog). Future versions of RELP will address
 this shortcoming.
 
 WWW: http://www.librelp.com/
diff --git a/devel/libtecla/pkg-descr b/devel/libtecla/pkg-descr
index 6ca6f08dc374..266b4470818f 100644
--- a/devel/libtecla/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/libtecla/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 The tecla library provides UNIX and LINUX programs with interactive
-command line editing facilities, similar to those of the unix tcsh
+command line editing facilities, similar to those of the Unix tcsh
 shell. In addition to simple command-line editing, it supports recall
 of previously entered command lines, TAB completion of file names or
 other tokens, and in-line wild-card expansion of file names. The
diff --git a/devel/ocaml-annexlib/pkg-descr b/devel/ocaml-annexlib/pkg-descr
index 3b7ddef9b6ee..da49ec510a1e 100644
--- a/devel/ocaml-annexlib/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/ocaml-annexlib/pkg-descr
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 An extension Library
 
-This is mostly to fill in some gaps in the standard and unix
+This is mostly to fill in some gaps in the standard and Unix
 libraries, either for completeness or because they're things I find
 myself needing a lot of the time, and a few modules that aren't worthy
 of being their own releases. Enjoy. Most of this used to be part of an
diff --git a/devel/p5-File-ShareDir/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-File-ShareDir/pkg-descr
index 1d3c98d4c470..a6d2353dc5ba 100644
--- a/devel/p5-File-ShareDir/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/p5-File-ShareDir/pkg-descr
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Quite often you want or need your Perl module (CPAN or otherwise) to
 have access to a large amount of read-only data that is stored on the
 file-system at run-time.
 
-On a linux-like system, this would be in a place such as /usr/share,
+On a Linux-like system, this would be in a place such as /usr/share,
 however Perl runs on a wide variety of different systems, and so the use
 of any one location is unreliable.
 
diff --git a/devel/p5-IO-FDPass/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-IO-FDPass/pkg-descr
index c323222817a6..63cda79e653c 100644
--- a/devel/p5-IO-FDPass/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/p5-IO-FDPass/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 This small low-level module only has one purpose: pass a file
-descriptor to another process, using a (streaming) unix domain socket
+descriptor to another process, using a (streaming) Unix domain socket
 (on POSIX systems) or any (streaming) socket (on WIN32 systems).  The
 ability to pass file descriptors on windows is currently the unique
 selling point of this module. Have I mentioned that it is really
diff --git a/devel/p5-Mock-Quick/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-Mock-Quick/pkg-descr
index 0355198f1098..f328c56e997e 100644
--- a/devel/p5-Mock-Quick/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/p5-Mock-Quick/pkg-descr
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Mock-Object provides a declarative mocking interface that results in a
-very concise, but clear syntax. There are seperate facilities for
+very concise, but clear syntax. There are separate facilities for
 mocking object instances, and classes. You can quickly create an
 instance of an object with custom attributes and methods. You can also
-quickly create an anonymous class, optionally inhereting from another,
+quickly create an anonymous class, optionally inheriting from another,
 with whatever methods you desire.
 
 Mock-Object also provides a tool that provides an OO interface to
diff --git a/devel/p5-Perl-OSType/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-Perl-OSType/pkg-descr
index 0b91ebf7a0c6..1476ee855101 100644
--- a/devel/p5-Perl-OSType/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/p5-Perl-OSType/pkg-descr
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Modules that provide OS-specific behaviors often need to know if the
 current operating system matches a more generic type of operating
-systems.  For example, 'linux' is a type of 'Unix' operating system and
-so is 'freebsd'.
+systems.  For example, 'Linux' is a type of 'Unix' operating system and
+so is 'FreeBSD'.
 
 This module provides a mapping between an operating system name as given
 by $^O and a more generic type.
diff --git a/devel/p5-Sys-Cpu/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-Sys-Cpu/pkg-descr
index a34977c1d8ac..15814818fd4e 100644
--- a/devel/p5-Sys-Cpu/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/p5-Sys-Cpu/pkg-descr
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Sys::CPU - Perl extension for getting CPU information.
 In responce to a post on perlmonks.org, a module for counting 
 the number of CPU's on a system. Support has now also been 
 added for type of CPU and clock speed. While much of the code 
-is from UNIX::Processors, win32 support has been added 
+is from UNIX::Processors, Win32 support has been added 
 (but not tested).
 
 WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sys-Cpu/
diff --git a/devel/p5-Term-Screen/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-Term-Screen/pkg-descr
index a310dc072ad3..f4b7d0e143d7 100644
--- a/devel/p5-Term-Screen/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/p5-Term-Screen/pkg-descr
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Term::Screen is a very simple screen positioning module that should work
 wherever `Term::Cap' does. It is set up for Unix using stty's but these
-dependences are isolated by evals in the `new' constructor. Thus you may
+dependencies are isolated by evals in the `new' constructor. Thus you may
 create a child module implementing Screen with MS-DOS, ioctl, or other
 means to get raw and unblocked input. This is not a replacement for
 Curses -- it has no memory.  This was written so that it could be easily
diff --git a/devel/p5-Test-EOL/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-Test-EOL/pkg-descr
index 03d0b6e2a713..6a37ca4a2099 100644
--- a/devel/p5-Test-EOL/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/p5-Test-EOL/pkg-descr
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Test::EOL lets you check the presence of windows line endings in your
+Test::EOL lets you check the presence of Windows line endings in your
 perl code. It report its results in standard Test::Simple fashion.
 
 WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-EOL/
diff --git a/devel/pear-PhpDocumentor/pkg-descr b/devel/pear-PhpDocumentor/pkg-descr
index baf513a613c8..064070e818e2 100644
--- a/devel/pear-PhpDocumentor/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/pear-PhpDocumentor/pkg-descr
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 The phpDocumentor tool is a standalone auto-documentor similar to JavaDoc
 written in PHP. It differs from PHPDoc in that it is MUCH faster, parses a much
 wider range of php files, and comes with many customizations including 11 HTML
-templates, windows help file CHM output, PDF output, and XML DocBook peardoc2
+templates, Windows help file CHM output, PDF output, and XML DocBook peardoc2
 output for use with documenting PEAR. In addition, it can do PHPXref source
 code highlighting and linking.
 
diff --git a/devel/py-billiard/pkg-descr b/devel/py-billiard/pkg-descr
index afd343ac3491..b45e980c179f 100644
--- a/devel/py-billiard/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/py-billiard/pkg-descr
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 billiard is a fork of the Python 2.7 multiprocessing package.
 The multiprocessing package itself is a renamed and updated version
 of R Oudkerk's pyprocessing package. This standalone variant is intended
-to be compatible with Python 2.4 and 2.5, and will draw it's
+to be compatible with Python 2.4 and 2.5, and will draw its
 fixes/improvements from python-trunk.
 
 WWW: https://github.com/celery/billiard
diff --git a/devel/py-tipper/pkg-descr b/devel/py-tipper/pkg-descr
index f11a81249f9a..b836484a1b7d 100644
--- a/devel/py-tipper/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/py-tipper/pkg-descr
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Python processes.
 Included is a module that, when imported, installs a `signal handler`_
 for `SIGUSR1`_. Running ``kill -SIGUSR1 [pid]`` will cause the process
 to dump the current stack trace of each thread to
-``$TMPDIR/tipper-[unix timestamp]-[parent pid]-[pid].log``.
+``$TMPDIR/tipper-[Unix timestamp]-[parent pid]-[pid].log``.
 
 WWW: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tipper
 
diff --git a/devel/qconf/pkg-descr b/devel/qconf/pkg-descr
index 8502570b31a6..28d04cda7713 100644
--- a/devel/qconf/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/qconf/pkg-descr
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ QConf allows you to have a nice configure script for your qmake-based
 project. It is intended for developers who don't need (or want) to
 use the more complex GNU autotools. With qconf/qmake, it is easy
 to maintain a cross-platform project that uses a familiar configuration
-interface on unix.
+interface on Unix.
 
 WWW: http://delta.affinix.com/qconf/
diff --git a/devel/quilt/pkg-descr b/devel/quilt/pkg-descr
index e48954b99ba9..dd2248f170ee 100644
--- a/devel/quilt/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/quilt/pkg-descr
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ The key philosophical concept is that your primary output is
 patches. Not ".c" files, not ".h" files. But patches. So patches are
 the first-class object here.
 Quilt was originally based on Andrew Morton's patch scripts published
-on the linux kernel mailing list.
+on the Linux kernel mailing list.
 
 WWW: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt
diff --git a/devel/rubygem-file-tail/pkg-descr b/devel/rubygem-file-tail/pkg-descr
index 770c73931c5b..630abdaf6b3c 100644
--- a/devel/rubygem-file-tail/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/rubygem-file-tail/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 This is a small ruby library that allows Ruby to 'tail' a file,
-including following a file, that still is growing like the unix
+including following a file, that still is growing like the Unix
 command 'tail -f' can.
 
 This Library is similar to Perl's File::Tail. It can be used to
diff --git a/devel/rubygem-rubyinline/pkg-descr b/devel/rubygem-rubyinline/pkg-descr
index d0228abdd954..b46bb1692741 100644
--- a/devel/rubygem-rubyinline/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/rubygem-rubyinline/pkg-descr
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ perl, whatever). The code is compiled and run on the fly when needed.
 
 Using the package_inline tool Inline now allows you to package up your
 inlined object code for distribution to systems without a compiler
-(read: windows)!
+(read: Windows)!
 
 FEATURES/PROBLEMS:
    * Quick and easy inlining of your C or C++ code embedded in your ruby
diff --git a/dns/dnstracer/pkg-descr b/dns/dnstracer/pkg-descr
index 0f1dbc8c3450..f4befd8a872f 100644
--- a/dns/dnstracer/pkg-descr
+++ b/dns/dnstracer/pkg-descr
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ dnstracer determines where a given Domain Name Server (DNS) gets
 its information from, and follows the chain of DNS servers back to
 the servers which know the data.
 
-Its behaviour is similair to ntptrace(8), which does it for the
+Its behaviour is similar to ntptrace(8), which does it for the
 NTP protocol.
 
 WWW: http://www.mavetju.org/unix/general.php
diff --git a/editors/gate/pkg-descr b/editors/gate/pkg-descr
index 08272da6c38c..85818c33e43f 100644
--- a/editors/gate/pkg-descr
+++ b/editors/gate/pkg-descr
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ and allows backspacing from the currently line onto previous lines. It
 also provides features that a more experienced user can use. You can call
 up normal editor, or use some of gate's simple-minded editing
 commands. You can read in files, or save your text to a file. You can
-filter your text through something like the unix "fmt" command. It
+filter your text through something like the Unix "fmt" command. It
 provides a nice spell-checking interface too. 
 
 WWW: http://www.unixpapa.com/gate.html
diff --git a/editors/le/pkg-descr b/editors/le/pkg-descr
index bf6cfca0844b..9f9b99e53813 100644
--- a/editors/le/pkg-descr
+++ b/editors/le/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 LE has many block operations with stream and rectangular blocks, can edit
-both unix and dos style files (LF/CRLF), is binary clean, has hex mode,
+both Unix and DOS style files (LF/CRLF), is binary clean, has hex mode,
 can edit text with multi-byte character encoding, has full undo/redo, can
 edit files and mmap-able devices in mmap shared mode (only replace), has
 tunable syntax highlighting, tunable color scheme (can use default colors),
diff --git a/emulators/dosbox/pkg-descr b/emulators/dosbox/pkg-descr
index c9e67863bbda..d6265add0a98 100644
--- a/emulators/dosbox/pkg-descr
+++ b/emulators/dosbox/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-DOSBox is an emulator of a PC with dos.
-The main focus of this project is emulating old dos games using the
+DOSBox is an emulator of a PC with DOS.
+The main focus of this project is emulating old DOS games using the
 local file system for files.
 
 Currently emulated is:
diff --git a/emulators/generator/pkg-descr b/emulators/generator/pkg-descr
index 7ac192de09ac..75e17618c6a6 100644
--- a/emulators/generator/pkg-descr
+++ b/emulators/generator/pkg-descr
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Generator is an open source emulator designed to emulate the Sega Genesis /
 Mega Drive console, a popular games machine produced in the early 1990s. It is
 a portable program written in C and has been ported to the Amiga, Macintosh,
 Windows and even pocket PCs such as the iPAQ and Cassiopeia. Natively it
-compiles under unix for X Windows with either tcl/tk or gtk/SDL, for svgalib
+compiles under Unix for X Windows with either tcl/tk or gtk/SDL, for svgalib
 and even cross-compiles to DOS with djgpp/allegro.
 
 Generator uses it's own custom 68000 processor emulation which is and uses
diff --git a/emulators/linux_base-c6/pkg-descr b/emulators/linux_base-c6/pkg-descr
index 2fda97e397d0..d9253056daaa 100644
--- a/emulators/linux_base-c6/pkg-descr
+++ b/emulators/linux_base-c6/pkg-descr
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 This port contains packages from a near-minimal installation of CentOS 6
-Linux.  These packages, in conjunction with the linux kernel module,
+Linux.  These packages, in conjunction with the Linux kernel module,
 form the basis of the Linux compatibility environment. It is designed to
 provide a nice user experience by using the FreeBSD configuration for
 corresponding Linux stuff where possible. Because of this any work which
-needs to chroot into the linux base may not work as expected (no fallthrough
+needs to chroot into the Linux base may not work as expected (no fallthrough
 to the FreeBSD config possible).
 
 This port is only available for the i386/amd64 architecture (i386/32 bit mode). 
diff --git a/emulators/linux_base-f10/pkg-descr b/emulators/linux_base-f10/pkg-descr
index 2564e11ba1b9..da31b8b45677 100644
--- a/emulators/linux_base-f10/pkg-descr
+++ b/emulators/linux_base-f10/pkg-descr
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 This port contains packages from a near-minimal installation of Fedora 10
-Linux.  These packages, in conjunction with the linux kernel module,
+Linux.  These packages, in conjunction with the Linux kernel module,
 form the basis of the Linux compatibility environment. It is designed to
 provide a nice user experience by using the FreeBSD configuration for
 corresponding Linux stuff where possible. Because of this any work which
-needs to chroot into the linux base may not work as expected (no fallthrough
+needs to chroot into the Linux base may not work as expected (no fallthrough
 to the FreeBSD config possible).
 
 This port is only available for the i386/amd64 architecture (i386/32 bit mode). 
diff --git a/ftp/proftpd/pkg-descr b/ftp/proftpd/pkg-descr
index 2a41156adbdf..70c1eb714835 100644
--- a/ftp/proftpd/pkg-descr
+++ b/ftp/proftpd/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-ProFTPD is a highly configurable ftp daemon for unix
-and unix-like operating systems. ProFTPD is designed
+ProFTPD is a highly configurable ftp daemon for Unix
+and Unix-like operating systems. ProFTPD is designed
 to be somewhat of a "drop-in" replacement for wu-ftpd
 with a configuration format like Apache.