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-Rakudo Star -- a Perl 6 distribution based on Rakudo Perl
+Rakudo Star -- a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
 
-See <http://wiki.github.com/rakudo/rakudo/whats-going-into-rakudo> for a list
-of modules we want included in the distribution.
+Rakudo Star is an distribution of Perl 6 aimed at early adopters.
+This git repository isn't the distribution itself; the repository
+contains the tools and scripts used to create a distribution.
 
-This repository doesn't contain a distribution, it contains the tools
-and scripts to build a distribution.  Run "make VERSION=yyyy.mm" to populate 
-a distribution image in the rakudo-star-yyyy.mm/ directory.
+If you're looking to simply download and run the latest release
+of Rakudo Star, please download a .tar.gz file from
+http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads .
 
-*** This task should only be done by a release manager, or for testing 
-your changes if you want to contribute to Rakudo Star. If you just want
-to use Rakudo Star, please download a pre-built tar.gz from
-http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads ***
+If you're still reading this, we assume you're a Rakudo Star
+release manager, or someone that is looking to create new
+Perl 6 distributions based on the tools here.  Run 
+"make VERSION=yyyy.mm" to populate a distribution image
+into the rakudo-star-yyyy.mm/ directory.
 
 The build system assumes that you have the following tools available:
 
@@ -23,9 +25,11 @@ The build system assumes that you have the following tools available:
     * tar
     * touch
 
+See <http://wiki.github.com/rakudo/rakudo/whats-going-into-rakudo> for a list
+of modules we want included in the distribution.
+
 The skel/ directory contains the basic layout of documentation and
 other support files, other components are then populated into to
 the target directory via the make command above.
 
 To create a candidate release tarball, try "make release VERSION=yyyy.mm".
-