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 \mainpage
 
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 \section history History and Motivation
 
-BeRTOS was born as a collection of useful, highly optimized and fine-tuned
-libraries for embedded systems.  Each library had its own scope and could be
-used singularly in a project, though they were also meant to cooperate to
-build the whole underlying software layer commonly called "operating system".
+BeRTOS was born as a extremely modular, highly optimized and fine-tuned
+operating system for embedded programming.
+As a result, each module has its own scope and can be used alone or in
+cooperation with other modules.
+It's even possible to use most of the drivers without activating the kernel module.
 
 We have grown it following our guidelines: simplicity and beauty.
 These guidelines made it possible to evolve it in a full-featured real
@@ -29,7 +34,7 @@ without giving up reliability and performace.
 
 To achieve the highest possible reusability, most BeRTOS components are
 designed for fine-grained modularity and minimal external dependencies.
-Most non-essential features can be configured out for application with small
+Most non-essential features can be configured out for applications with small
 memory footprint requirements.
 
 \section features Features
@@ -66,13 +71,16 @@ The modules are sorted in subdirectories by their category:
   - bertos/hw/	    : hardware-specific declarations;
   - bertos/icons/   : conversion tool from image TXT format to LCD bitmap;
   - bertos/kern/    : multitasking kernel;
-  - bertos/mware/   : algorithms, containers and other standalone code;
+  - bertos/mware/   : algorithms, other standalone code;
+  - bertos/struct/  : containers and other data structures;
   - bertos/os/	    : OS-abstraction layers for hosted environments;
   - doc/            : documentation;
 
 The top-level directory contains a few support headers that are meant to be
 usable by any C/C++ embedded or hosted application.
 
+See the \ref dev_status page for information about the various drivers.
+
 \section license License
 
 BeRTOS is provided under the term of the GNU General Public License