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 Additional design notes, presentations, and other collateral are 
 also available at http://xosproject.org and http://cord.onosproject.org.
 
-The quickest way to get started is to look at the collection of
+One quick way to get started is to build and run the containers in
+*containers* (see the README in that directory for more information).
+
+Another quick way to get started is to look at the collection of
 canned configurations in *xos/configurations*. The *cord* 
 configuration in that directory corresponds to our current 
 CORD development environment, and the README you'll find there