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 ### Enabling distcc for distributed compilation
 
-Setup the slaves (machines that will compile the code):
+Setup the workers (machines that will compile the code):
 
     # xbps-install -Sy distcc
 
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ Enable and start the `distccd` service:
     # ln -s /etc/sv/distccd /var/service
 
 Install distcc on the host (machine that executes xbps-src) as well.
-Unless you want to use the host as slave from other machines, there is no need
+Unless you want to use the host as worker from other machines, there is no need
 to modify the configuration.
 
 On the host you can now enable distcc in the `void-packages/etc/conf` file:
@@ -383,8 +383,8 @@ On the host you can now enable distcc in the `void-packages/etc/conf` file:
 
 The example values assume a localhost CPU with 4 cores of which at most 2 are used for compiler jobs.
 The number of slots for preprocessor jobs is set to 24 in order to have enough preprocessed data for other CPUs to compile.
-The slave 192.168.2.101 has a CPU with 8 cores and the /9 for the number of jobs is a saturating choice.
-The slave 192.168.2.102 is set to run at most 2 compile jobs to keep its load low, even if its CPU has 4 cores.
+The worker 192.168.2.101 has a CPU with 8 cores and the /9 for the number of jobs is a saturating choice.
+The worker 192.168.2.102 is set to run at most 2 compile jobs to keep its load low, even if its CPU has 4 cores.
 The XBPS_MAKEJOBS setting is increased to 16 to account for the possible parallelism (2 + 9 + 2 + some slack).
 
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