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 ## Quick Start with Pre-built Packages
 
+### Disclaimer
+> These packages are provided on a best effort basis as a convenience for our community until such time as equivalent official operating system repository provided packages become available.
+
 Assuming you have a machine running a recent Debian or Ubuntu distribution, you 
 can install Krill from our [software package repository](https://packages.nlnetlabs.nl).
 To use this repository, add the line below that corresponds to your operating system to