diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+DeforaOS Mixer
+==============
+
+About Mixer
+-----------
+
+Mixer is a volume control application for the DeforaOS desktop.
+
+
+Compiling Mixer
+----------------
+
+Mixer depends on the following components:
+
+ * DeforaOS libDesktop
+ * DocBook-XSL (for the manual pages)
+
+With GCC, this should then be enough to compile Mixer:
+
+    $ make
+
+To install (or package) Mixer in a different location:
+
+    $ make DESTDIR="/staging/directory" PREFIX="/another/prefix" install
+
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+Manual pages for each of the executables installed are available in the `doc`
+folder. They are written in the DocBook-XML format, and need libxslt and
+DocBook-XSL to be installed to be converted to either HTML or man file format.
diff --git a/project.conf b/project.conf
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@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ version=0.2.0
 config=h,sh
 
 subdirs=data,doc,po,src
-dist=COPYING,Makefile,config.h,config.sh
+dist=COPYING,Makefile,README.md,config.h,config.sh