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diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md index 7939657915..d85cf12def 100644 --- a/docs/index.md +++ b/docs/index.md @@ -12,9 +12,13 @@ It also supports a rich set of higher-level tools including [Spark SQL](sql-prog # Downloading -Get Spark from the [downloads page](http://spark.apache.org/downloads.html) of the project website. This documentation is for Spark version {{site.SPARK_VERSION}}. The downloads page -contains Spark packages for many popular HDFS versions. If you'd like to build Spark from -scratch, visit [Building Spark](building-spark.html). +Get Spark from the [downloads page](http://spark.apache.org/downloads.html) of the project website. This documentation is for Spark version {{site.SPARK_VERSION}}. Spark uses Hadoop's client libraries for HDFS and YARN. Downloads are pre-packaged for a handful of popular Hadoop versions. +Users can also download a "Hadoop free" binary and run Spark with any Hadoop version +[by augmenting Spark's classpath](hadoop-provided.html). + +If you'd like to build Spark from +source, visit [Building Spark](building-spark.html). + Spark runs on both Windows and UNIX-like systems (e.g. Linux, Mac OS). It's easy to run locally on one machine --- all you need is to have `java` installed on your system `PATH`, |