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A bunch of minor doc/message fixes.
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@ -10,6 +10,26 @@ Urbit can be installed on most Unix systems. There is no Windows
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port. Windows is a wonderful OS, we just haven't gotten to it yet.
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Use a VM.
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## Configure the OS
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Urbit wants to map 2GB of memory when it boots up. We won't
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necessarily use all this memory, we just want to see it. On a
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normal modern PC or Mac, this is not an issue. On some small
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cloud virtual machines (Amazon or Digital Ocean), the default
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memory configuration is smaller than this, and you need to
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manually configure a swapfile.
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To add swap to a DO droplet:
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https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-14-04
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To add swap on an Amazon instance:
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17173972/how-do-you-add-swap-to-an-ec2-instance
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Don't spend a lot of time tweaking these settings; the simplest
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thing is fine.
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## Install as a package
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### OS X - Homebrew
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# Launch procedure
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An urbit is a persistent server on the `%ames` P2P network.
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An urbit is a persistent server on the Urbit P2P network.
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You'll create one of these servers now. To understand what
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you're building, you need to know a little about the network.
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@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ the miscellaneous true facts below:
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## Network architecture
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An Urbit address is a 128-bit number, or *plot*. Every server on
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the Urbit network (or just an "urbit") has one unique plot.
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An Urbit address is a number, or *plot*, under 2^128. Every
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server on the Urbit network has one unique plot.
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Since Urbit is designed as a personal server, a plot is both a
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network address and a digital identity. There is no additional
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