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 == Build host requirements ==
-The olpc-os-builder machinery has been used successfully with systems running '''Fedora 11 i386''' through '''Fedora 13 x86_64'''. What the host system runs shouldn't matter much, because all the work is being done in a chroot environment, but olpc-os-builder is known to fail on Ubuntu due to a missing dependency.
+The Dextrose build system runs on '''Fedora 11 i386''' through '''Fedora 13 x86_64'''. The host system runs _shouldn't_ matter, because the build runs in a chroot environment. olpc-os-builder does not yet run on Ubuntu due to a missing dependency.
-You will also need a lot of bandwidth to download about '''700MB''' of rpm packages and Sugar activity bundles.
+The initial build requires downloading about '''700MB''' of rpm packages and Sugar activity bundles. The packages and bundles are cached for futures builds.
 == Initial setup ==