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README: update minimum system requirements and recommend OpenSSL
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Stebalien committed Jul 29, 2019
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### System Requirements

IPFS can run on most Linux, macOS, and Windows systems. We recommend running it on a machine with at least 2 GB of RAM (it’ll do fine with only one CPU core), but it should run fine with as little as 1 GB of RAM. On systems with less memory, it may not be completely stable.
IPFS can run on most Linux, macOS, and Windows systems. We recommend running it on a machine with at least 2 GB of RAM and 2 CPU cores (go-ipfs is highly parallel). On systems with less memory, it may not be completely stable.

If your system is resource constrained, we recommend:

1. Installing OpenSSL and rebuilding go-ipfs manually with `make build GOFLAGS=-tags=openssl`. See the [download and compile](#download-and-compile-ipfs) section for more information on compiling go-ipfs.
2. Initializing your daemon with `ipfs init --profile=lowpower`

### Install prebuilt packages

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