A bunch of minor doc/message fixes.

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C. Guy Yarvin 2015-11-05 13:26:23 -08:00
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@ -10,6 +10,26 @@ Urbit can be installed on most Unix systems. There is no Windows
port. Windows is a wonderful OS, we just haven't gotten to it yet.
Use a VM.
## Configure the OS
Urbit wants to map 2GB of memory when it boots up. We won't
necessarily use all this memory, we just want to see it. On a
normal modern PC or Mac, this is not an issue. On some small
cloud virtual machines (Amazon or Digital Ocean), the default
memory configuration is smaller than this, and you need to
manually configure a swapfile.
To add swap to a DO droplet:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-14-04
To add swap on an Amazon instance:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17173972/how-do-you-add-swap-to-an-ec2-instance
Don't spend a lot of time tweaking these settings; the simplest
thing is fine.
## Install as a package
### OS X - Homebrew

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# Launch procedure
An urbit is a persistent server on the `%ames` P2P network.
An urbit is a persistent server on the Urbit P2P network.
You'll create one of these servers now. To understand what
you're building, you need to know a little about the network.
@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ the miscellaneous true facts below:
## Network architecture
An Urbit address is a 128-bit number, or *plot*. Every server on
the Urbit network (or just an "urbit") has one unique plot.
An Urbit address is a number, or *plot*, under 2^128. Every
server on the Urbit network has one unique plot.
Since Urbit is designed as a personal server, a plot is both a
network address and a digital identity. There is no additional