diff --git a/man5/nscd.conf.5 b/man5/nscd.conf.5
index e564b34e4..659919831 100644
--- a/man5/nscd.conf.5
+++ b/man5/nscd.conf.5
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ in the specified cache for
 is in seconds.
 Can result in significant performance improvements if there
 are several files owned by UIDs (user IDs) not in system databases (for
-example untarring the linux kernel sources as root); should be kept small
+example untarring the Linux kernel sources as root); should be kept small
 to reduce cache coherency problems.
 .RE