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-libOpenMetaverse Library Quick Start
+```
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+| (_) |__ _ _ ___|  \/  | __|_   _/_\ \ / / __| _ \/ __| __|
+| | | '_ \ '_/ -_) |\/| | _|  | |/ _ \ V /| _||   /\__ \ _| 
+|_|_|_.__/_| \___|_|  |_|___| |_/_/ \_\_/ |___|_|_\|___/___|
+```
+LibreMetaverse
+===============================================================================
+LibreMetaverse is a fork of libOpenMetaverse which in turn was a fork of
+libSecondLife, a library for developing Second Life-compatible virtual world
+clients. LibreMetavrse returns the focus to up-to-date Second Life and OpenSim
+compatibility with an eye to performance and memory management.
 
-
-Finding Help
-------------
-
-If you need any help we have a couple of resources, the primary one being 
-the #libomv-dev IRC channel on Freenode. There is also the libomv-dev mailing list 
-at http://groups.google.com/group/libomv-dev. You can find us 
-in-world via the open invitation libsecondlife group.
-
-Source Code:
-   To checkout a copy of libopenmv trunk
-   git clone https://github.com/openmetaversefoundation/libopenmetaverse.git libopenmetaverse
-
-For more details see: 
-   http://lib.openmetaverse.co/wiki/Download#Development
-   http://lib.openmetaverse.co/wiki/Getting_Started
-
-Getting started on Windows
-====================================================================================
-
-
-Prerequisites (all Freely Available)
---------------------------------------
-
-Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 - Get directly from Windows Update.
-Visual C# Express - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualcsharp/
-
-Optional-
-nAnt (0.86) - http://nant.sourceforge.net/
-nUnit Framework (2.2.8 or greater) - http://www.nunit.org/
-
-
-Compiling
----------
-For Visual Studio 2008/Visual C# Express 2008
-1. Open Explorer and browse to the directory you extracted the source distribution to
-2. Double click the runprebuild2008.bat file, this will create the necessary solution and project files
-3. open the solution OpenMetaverse.sln from within Visual Studio
-4. From the Build Menu choose Build Solution (or press the F6 Key)
-
-The library, example applications and tools will be in the bin directory
-
-For Visual Studio 2010:
-1. Open Explorer and browse to the directory you extracted the source distribution to
-2. Double click the runprebuild2010.bat file, this will create the necessary solution and project files
-3. open the solution OpenMetaverse.sln from within Visual Studio
-4. From the Build Menu choose Build Solution (or press the F6 Key)
-
-The library, example applications and tools will be in the bin directory
-
-For more details http://lib.openmetaverse.co/wiki/Getting_Started
-
-
-Getting started on Linux
-====================================================================================
-
-Prerequisites Needed
---------------------
-
-mono 2.4 - http://www.mono-project.com/
-
-Optional-
-nUnit Framework (2.2.8 or greater) - http://www.nunit.org/
-nAnt (0.86) - http://nant.sourceforge.net/
-
-Compiling
----------
-
-Using nant:
-1. Change to the directory you extracted the source distribution to
-2. run the prebuild file: % sh runprebuild.sh nant - This will generate the required nant build files and run
-   nant with the correct buildfile parameter to build the library, examples and tools
-
-Using mono xbuild:
-1. Change to the directory you extracted the source distribution to
-2. run the prebuild file: % sh runprebuild.sh - This will generate the solution files for xbuild
-3. Compile the solution with the command: % xbuild OpenMetaverse.sln
-
-The library, example applications and tools will be in the bin directory
-
-For more details http://lib.openmetaverse.co/wiki/Getting_Started
-
-
-Happy fiddling,
--- OpenMetaverse Ninjas 
+The canonical source for LibreMetaverse (as well as the bug tracker) can be
+found at:
+https://bitbucket.org/cinderblocks/libremetaverse