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-OpenRC README
+# OpenRC README
 
+OpenRC is a dependency-based init system that works with the
+system-provided init program, normally `/sbin/init`. Currently, it does
+not have an init program of its own.
+
+## Installation
+
+OpenRC requires GNU make.
+
+Once you have GNU Make installed, the default OpenRC installation can be
+executed using this command:
 
-Installation
-------------
 make install
-Yup, that simple. Works with GNU make.
 
-You may wish to tweak the installation with the below arguments
+## Configuration
+
+You may wish to configure the installation by passing one or more of the
+below arguments to the make command
+
 PROGLDFLAGS=-static
 LIBNAME=lib64
 DESTDIR=/tmp/openrc-image
@@ -22,45 +33,63 @@ MKTOOLS=yes
 PKG_PREFIX=/usr/pkg
 LOCAL_PREFIX=/usr/local
 PREFIX=/usr/local
-
-We don't support building a static OpenRC with PAM.
-You may need to use PROGLDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bstatic on glibc instead of just -static.
-If you debug memory under valgrind, add -DDEBUG_MEMORY to your CPPFLAGS
-so that all malloc memory should be freed at exit.
-If you are building OpenRC for a Gentoo Prefix installation, add
-MKPREFIX=yes.
-
-You can also brand OpenRC if you so wish like so
 BRANDING=\"Gentoo/$(uname -s)\"
 
-PKG_PREFIX should be set to where packages install to by default.
-LOCAL_PREFIX should be set when to where user maintained packages are.
-Only set LOCAL_PREFIX if different from PKG_PREFIX.
-PREFIX should be set when OpenRC is not installed to /.
+## Notes
+
+We don't support building a static OpenRC with PAM.
+
+You may need to use `PROGLDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bstatic` on glibc instead of just `-static`.
+
+If you debug memory under valgrind, add `-DDEBUG_MEMORY`
+to your `CPPFLAGS` so that all malloc memory should be freed at exit.
+
+If you are building OpenRC for a Gentoo Prefix installation, add `MKPREFIX=yes`.
+
+`PKG_PREFIX` should be set to where packages install to by default.
+
+`LOCAL_PREFIX` should be set when to where user maintained packages are.
+Only set `LOCAL_PREFIX` if different from `PKG_PREFIX`.
+
+`PREFIX` should be set when OpenRC is not installed to /.
 
 If any of the following files exist then we do not overwrite them
+
 /etc/devd.conf
 /etc/rc
 /etc/rc.shutdown
 /etc/conf.d/*
 
-rc and rc.shutdown are the hooks from the BSD init into OpenRC.
-devd.conf is modified from FreeBSD to call /etc/rc.devd which is a generic
-hook into OpenRC.
-inittab is the same, but for SysVInit as used by most Linux distributions.
+`rc` and `rc.shutdown` are the hooks from the BSD init into OpenRC.
+
+`devd.conf` is modified from FreeBSD to call `/etc/rc.devd` which is a
+generic hook into OpenRC.
+
+`inittab` is the same, but for SysVInit as used by most Linux distributions.
 This can be found in the support folder.
-Obviously, if you're installing this onto a system that does not use OpenRC
-by default then you may wish to backup the above listed files, remove them
-and then install so that the OS hooks into OpenRC.
 
-init.d.misc is not installed by default as the scripts will need
-tweaking on a per distro basis. They are also non essential to the operation
-of the system.
+Obviously, if you're installing this onto a system that does not use
+OpenRC by default then you may wish to backup the above listed files,
+remove them and then install so that the OS hooks into OpenRC.
 
-Reporting Bugs
---------------
-Since Gentoo Linux is hosting OpenRC development, Bugs should go to
-the Gentoo Bugzilla:
-	http://bugs.gentoo.org/
-They should be filed under the "Gentoo Hosted Projects" product and
-the "openrc" component.
+`init.d.misc` is not installed by default as the scripts will need
+tweaking on a per distro basis. They are also non essential to the
+operation of the system.
+
+## Reporting Bugs
+
+If you are using Gentoo Linux, bugs can be filed on their bugzilla under
+the "gentoo hosted projects" product and the "openrc" component [1].
+Otherwise, you can report issues on our github [2].
+
+Better yet, if you can contribute code, please feel free to submit pull
+requests [3].
+
+## IRC Channel
+
+We have an official irc channel, #openrc on freenode, feel free to join
+us there.
+
+[1]	https://bugs.gentoo.org/
+[2]	https://github.com/openrc/openrc/issues
+[3]	https://github.com/openrc/openrc/pulls