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 [![Arch Linux package](https://img.shields.io/archlinux/v/community/x86_64/toolbox)](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/toolbox/)
 [![Fedora package](https://img.shields.io/fedora/v/toolbox/rawhide)](https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/toolbox/)
 
-[Toolbox](https://github.com/containers/toolbox) is a tool that offers a
-familiar package based environment for developing and debugging software that
-runs fully unprivileged using [Podman](https://podman.io/).
+[Toolbox](https://github.com/containers/toolbox) is a tool for Linux operating
+systems, which allows the use of containerized command line environments. It is
+built on top of [Podman](https://podman.io/) and other standard container
+technologies from [OCI](https://opencontainers.org/).
 
 The toolbox container is a fully *mutable* container; when you see
 `yum install ansible` for example, that's something you can do inside your