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 What is GNUnet?
 ===============
 
-GNUnet is peer-to-peer framework focusing on security.  The first and
-primary application for GNUnet is anonymous file-sharing.  GNUnet is
-currently developed by a worldwide group of independent free software
-developers.  GNUnet is a GNU package (http://www.gnu.org/).
+GNUnet is peer-to-peer framework providing a network abstractions and
+applications focusing on security and privacy.  So far, we have
+created applications for anonymous file-sharing, decentralized naming
+and identity management, decentralized and confidential telephony and
+tunneling IP traffic over GNUnet.  GNUnet is currently developed by a
+worldwide group of independent free software developers.  GNUnet is a
+GNU package (http://www.gnu.org/).
 
 This is an ALPHA release.  There are known and significant bugs as
 well as many missing features in this release.
@@ -39,7 +42,7 @@ These are the direct dependencies for running GNUnet:
 - libltdl       >= 2.2 (part of GNU libtool)
 - sqlite        >= 3.8 (default database, required)
 - mysql         >= 5.1 (alternative to sqlite)
-- postgres      >= 8.3 (alternative to sqlite)
+- postgres      >= 9.5 (alternative to sqlite)
 - libopus       >= 1.0.1 (optional for experimental conversation tool)
 - libpulse      >= 2.0 (optional for experimental conversation tool)
 - libogg        >= 1.3.0 (optional for experimental conversation tool)
@@ -80,7 +83,7 @@ actual GNUnet compilation and installation process with:
 
 $ export GNUNET_PREFIX=/usr/local/lib # or other directory of your choice
 # addgroup gnunetdns
-# adduser gnunet gnunet
+# adduser --system --home "/var/lib/gnunet" --group gnunet --shell /bin/sh
 # ./configure --prefix=$GNUNET_PREFIX/.. --with-extractor=$LE_PREFIX
 $ make
 # make install