Streamline installation for OSX and Linux about rack HOT 6 CLOSED

I like that.

Our "choice" of lowercase versions of Darwin and Linux actually come from go/gimme. We should make it easier for the user though, so that could be accommodated in the build script.

/usr/local/ doesn't exist on a plain vanilla install of OS X.

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I'm really having trouble finding good citations other than some old articles about 32-bit vs. 64-bit, but I'd like to make a leap to say that 64-bit is likely with a developer box.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18281235/prevalence-of-64bit-vs-32bit-platforms

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/usr/local does not exist on plain OSX installs (it's an xcode / homebrew artifact)

I would prefer NOT to assume the "run a magic curl command" model that docker and others use; our goal isn't for power users, its for support people and others who may hit an error because:

curl -L https://rack.developer.rackspace.com/rack-`uname -s-uname -m` > /usr/local/bin/rack

fails because they don't have access to the uname binary, or they don't have /usr/local - I'd rather assume they are not native OSX / developer users - or even native cloud users.

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Nor do they necessarily have curl.

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Alright. Power users will be able to figure this stuff out themselves anyway. And #58 will make it even easier.

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