-+ What's new
-=============
-
-This should be a stable release. There have been many enhancements
-since 4.06, and shed-loads of bug-fixes (one shed (imperial) ~ one ton
-(US)).
-
-There are the following changes
-
- - New profiling subsystem, based on cost-centre stacks.
-
- - Working x86 native code generator: now it works properly, runs
- about twice as fast as compiling via C, and is on a par for
- run-time speed (except in FP-intensive programs).
-
- - Implicit parameters (i.e. dynamic scoping without the pain).
-
- - DEPRECATED pragma for marking obsolescent interfaces.
-
- - In the wake of hslibs, a new package system for
- libraries. -package should now be used instead of -syslib.
-
- - Result type signatures work.
-
- - Many tiresome long-standing bugs and problems (e.g. the trace
- problem) have been fixed.
-
- - Many error messages have been made more helpful and/or
- accurate.
-
-For full details see the release notes:
-
- http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/4.08/users_guide/release-4-08.html
-
-+ Mailing lists
-================
+We supply binary builds in the native package format for various
+flavours of Linux and BSD, and in Windows Installer (MSI) form
+for Windows folks. Binary builds for other platforms are available
+as a .tar.gz which can be installed wherever you want. The source
+distribution is also available from the same place.
+
+Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your
+system isn't available yet, please try again later.
+
+Background
+~~~~~~~~~~
+Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language; the
+current language version is Haskell 98, agreed in December 1998 and
+revised December 2002.
+
+GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. Included is
+an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of
+platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick
+development. The distribution includes space and time profiling
+facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various
+language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign
+language interfaces (C, whatever). GHC is distributed under a
+BSD-style open source license.