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/)). * 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). * 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). * 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. The BigchainDB core dev team uses Ubuntu 14.04 or Fedora 23.