Revised OS X remarks in Node Requirements

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* RethinkDB Server [will run on any modern OS](https://www.rethinkdb.com/docs/install/). Note that the Fedora package isn't officially supported. Also, official support for Windows is fairly recent ([April 2016](https://rethinkdb.com/blog/2.3-release/)).
* Python 3.4+ [will run on any modern OS](https://docs.python.org/3.4/using/index.html).
* Some of the Python packages used by BigchainDB Server won't work on all OSes. In particular, [some functionality in the `multiprocessing` package doesn't work on OS X](https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/multiprocessing.html#multiprocessing.Queue.qsize).
* [Some functionality in the `multiprocessing` package doesn't work on OS X](https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/multiprocessing.html#multiprocessing.Queue.qsize). You can still use Mac OS X if you use Docker or a virtual machine.
* ZeroMQ [will run on any modern OS](http://zeromq.org/area:download).
In summary, you can't use OS X, but any other modern OS should be okay.
The BigchainDB core dev team uses Ubuntu 14.04 or Fedora 23.