diff --git a/MAINTAINING b/MAINTAINING
index 206893eff..392ddd1df 100644
--- a/MAINTAINING
+++ b/MAINTAINING
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ and it is possible to get subscribed to bug reports -- ask the Red Hat
 downstream maintainers.
 
 Perhaps some other distributions have similar facilities, but these are the
-only one I know about so far.
+only ones I know about so far.
 
 
 Testing New Features
@@ -160,8 +160,8 @@ To follow the development curve closely, download release candidate (rc)
 kernels from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/.
 Build and install the kernel, and test new features with test 
 programs.  Since the declarations of new system calls probably
-won't yet be in your (g)libc, the use of syscall() or _syscallN()
-may be required; see the intro(2) manual page.
+won't yet be in your (g)libc, the use of syscall() may be required;
+see the syscall(2) manual page.
 
 
 All the world is not Linux
@@ -229,6 +229,23 @@ other implementations.  Grepping all of these trees can give some
 clues about interfaces that are/aren't present on other Unix 
 implementations.
 
+Source code
+-----------
+
+The source code of some other Unix implementations is available,
+and useful to study to determine undocumented details of behaviour
+on those systems.
+
+Instructions on how to get the source code of Open Solaris
+can be found here (you'll need to install Mercurial ("hg")):
+http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/hg-build-snapshots/
+
+The FreeBSD source code is avaiulable via anonymous CVS as described here:
+http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/anoncvs.html
+You'll want a command something like the following:
+
+    cvs -d freebsdanoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs co src
+
 
 Release Philosophy
 ==================
@@ -242,6 +259,7 @@ changed; for example, downstream maintainers, and translators of
 the man pages (such as the dedicated Alain Portal, in recent 
 times) sometimes like to do this.
 
+
 Being a good free software citizen
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