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diff --git a/docs/users_guide/intro.xml b/docs/users_guide/intro.xml
index ba668ea..e219f90 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/intro.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/intro.xml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
   possible while not making too much effort to optimise the generated
   code (although GHC probably isn't what you'd describe as a fast
   compiler :-).</para>
-  
+
   <para>GHC's profiling system supports &ldquo;cost centre
   stacks&rdquo;: a way of seeing the profile of a Haskell program in a
   call-graph like structure.  See <xref linkend="profiling"/> for more
@@ -44,6 +44,22 @@
   <para>GHC comes with a number of libraries. These are
   described in separate documentation.</para>
 
+  <sect1 id="getting">
+    <title>Obtaining GHC</title>
+
+    <para>Go to the <ulink url="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/">GHC home
+	page</ulink> and follow the "download" link to download GHC
+	for your platform.</para>
+
+    <para>Alternatively, if you want to build GHC yourself, head on
+      over to the
+      <ulink url="http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building">GHC
+        Building Guide</ulink> to find out how to get the sources, and
+        build it on your system.  Note that GHC itself is written in
+        Haskell, so you will still need to install GHC in order to
+        build it.</para>
+  </sect1>
+
   <sect1 id="mailing-lists-GHC">
     <title>Meta-information: Web sites, mailing lists, etc.</title>
 
@@ -55,24 +71,18 @@
 
     <itemizedlist>
       <listitem>
-	<para><ulink url="http://www.haskell.org/" >Haskell home
-	page</ulink></para>
-      </listitem>
-
-      <listitem>
 	<para><ulink url="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/">GHC home
 	page</ulink></para>
       </listitem>
 
       <listitem>
-	<para><ulink
-	url="http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/faq.html">comp.lang.functional
-	FAQ</ulink></para>
+	<para><ulink url="http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/">GHC
+	Developers Home</ulink> (developer documentation, wiki, and
+	bug tracker)</para>
       </listitem>
-
     </itemizedlist>
 
-    <para>We run the following mailing lists about Glasgow Haskell.
+    <para>We run the following mailing lists about GHC.
     We encourage you to join, as you feel is appropriate.</para>
 
     <variablelist>
@@ -82,7 +92,7 @@
 	  <para>This list is for GHC users to chat among themselves.
 	  If you have a specific question about GHC, please check the
 	  <ulink
-	  url="http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/FAQ">FAQ</ulink>
+	  url="http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/FAQ">FAQ</ulink>
 	  first.</para>
 
 	  <variablelist>
@@ -94,7 +104,7 @@
 	    </varlistentry>
 
 	    <varlistentry>
-	      <term>subscribe at:</term> 
+	      <term>subscribe at:</term>
 	      <listitem>
 		<para><ulink
 	      url="http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users"><literal>http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users</literal></ulink>.</para>
@@ -122,9 +132,9 @@
       <varlistentry>
 	<term>glasgow-haskell-bugs:</term>
 	<listitem>
-	  <para>Send bug reports for GHC to this address!  The sad and
-          lonely people who subscribe to this list will muse upon
-          what's wrong and what you might do about it.</para>
+	  <para>This list is for reporting and discussing GHC bugs.
+	    However, please see <xref linkend="bug-reporting" /> before
+	    posting here.</para>
 
 	  <variablelist>
 	    <varlistentry>
@@ -135,7 +145,7 @@
 	    </varlistentry>
 
 	    <varlistentry>
-	      <term>subscribe at:</term> 
+	      <term>subscribe at:</term>
 	      <listitem>
 		<para><ulink
 	      url="http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs"><literal>http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs</literal></ulink>.</para>
@@ -153,7 +163,7 @@
 	      <term>list archives:</term>
 	      <listitem>
 		<para><ulink
-          url="http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-bugs/"><literal>http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-bugs/</literal></ulink></para>
+                         url="http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-bugs/"><literal>http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-bugs/</literal></ulink></para>
 	      </listitem>
 	    </varlistentry>
 	  </variablelist>
@@ -164,12 +174,11 @@
 	<term>cvs-ghc:</term>
 	<listitem>
 	  <para>The hardcore GHC developers hang out here.  This list
-	  also gets commit message from the CVS repository.  There are
-	  several other similar lists for other parts of the CVS
-	  repository (eg. <literal>cvs-hslibs</literal>,
-	  <literal>cvs-happy</literal>, <literal>cvs-hdirect</literal>
-	  etc.)</para>
-	  
+	  also gets commit message from the GHC darcs repository.  There are
+	  other lists for other darcs
+	  repositories (most notably <literal>cvs-libraries</literal>).
+	  </para>
+
 	  <variablelist>
 	    <varlistentry>
 	      <term>list email address:</term>
@@ -179,7 +188,7 @@
 	    </varlistentry>
 
 	    <varlistentry>
-	      <term>subscribe at:</term> 
+	      <term>subscribe at:</term>
 	      <listitem>
 		<para><ulink
 	      url="http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc"><literal>http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc</literal></ulink>.</para>
@@ -264,7 +273,7 @@
 	  </indexterm>
 	</listitem>
       </varlistentry>
-      
+
       <varlistentry>
 	<term>Stable snapshots</term>
 	<listitem>
@@ -329,7 +338,7 @@
 	</listitem>
       </varlistentry>
     </variablelist>
-    
+
     <para>The version number of your copy of GHC can be found by
     invoking <literal>ghc</literal> with the
     <literal>&ndash;&ndash;version</literal> flag (see <xref
@@ -337,13 +346,12 @@
   </sect1>
 
 
-&relnotes;
+&relnotes1;
 
 </chapter>
 
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