diff --git a/README b/README
index f03b974943a..4802e10ab3e 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ that you wrote it.
 2. QUICK START
 
 Whenever you compile from source, it is recommended to use the Wine
-Installer to build and install wine.  From the top-level Wine
+Installer to build and install Wine.  From the top-level Wine
 directory (which contains this file), run:
 
 ./tools/wineinstall
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ especially the wealth of information found at http://www.winehq.com.
 To compile and run Wine, you must have one of the following:
 
 	Linux version 2.0.36 or above
-	FreeBSD-current or FreeBSD 3.0 or later
+	FreeBSD 4.x or FreeBSD 5-CURRENT
 	Solaris x86 2.5 or later
 
 Linux info:
@@ -42,22 +42,14 @@ Linux info:
   you may want to upgrade to at least the latest 2.0.x release.
 
 FreeBSD info:
-  On FreeBSD, you may want to apply an LDT sharing patch too
-  (unless you are tracking -current where it finally has
-  been committed just recently), and there also is a small sigtrap
-  fix that's needed for wine's debugger. (Actually now that it's using
-  ptrace() by default it may no longer make a difference but it still
-  doesn't hurt...) And if you're running a system from the -stable
-  branch older than Nov 15 1999, like a 3.3-RELEASE, then you also
-  need to apply a signal handling change that was MFC'd at that date.
   Make sure you have the USER_LDT, SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, and SYSVMSG options
   turned on in your kernel.
-  More information including patches for the -stable branch is in
-  the ports tree:
+  More information including patches for the 4-STABLE branch is in the
+  ports tree:
   ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/emulators/wine/files/
 
 Solaris info:
-  You will most likely need to build wine with the GNU toolchain
+  You will most likely need to build Wine with the GNU toolchain
   (gcc, gas, etc.)
 
 Wine requires kernel-level threads to run. Currently, only Linux
@@ -68,7 +60,7 @@ in the future.
 
 You need to have the X11 development include files installed
 (called xlib6g-dev in Debian and XFree86-devel in RedHat).
-To use wine's support for multi-threaded applications, your X libraries
+To use Wine's support for multi-threaded applications, your X libraries
 must be reentrant, which is probably the default by now.
 If you have libc6 (glibc2), or you compiled the X libraries yourself,
 they were probably compiled with the reentrant option enabled.
@@ -82,7 +74,7 @@ and xpm4g-dev. SuSE calls these packages xpm and xpm-devel.
 On x86 Systems gcc >= 2.7.2 is required.
 Versions earlier than 2.7.2.3 may have problems when certain files
 are compiled with optimization, often due to problems with header file
-management. pgcc currently doesn't work with wine. The cause of this problem
+management. pgcc currently doesn't work with Wine. The cause of this problem
 is unknown.
 
 You also need flex version 2.5 or later and yacc.