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 ## Contributing to Podman
 
-This section describes how to start a contribution to Podman.
+This section describes how to start a contribution to Podman. These instructions are geared towards using a Linux development machine, or doing development on the podman backend. For instructions on working on MacOS, read the [docs for building on osx](./build_osx.md).
 
 ### Prepare your environment