Short readme update on Java 11 support

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== Building and Testing
Short version: just run `make`.
Short version: just run `make` if you want to build on Java 17, otherwise run `mvn install` if you want to build with Java 11, and without support for the `jdk.incubator.foreign` APIs.
The project currently relies on snapshot versions of the https://github.com/openjdk/panama-foreign[Panama Foreign] fork of OpenJDK.
The project (specifically, the `buffer-memseg` module) currently relies on snapshot versions of the https://github.com/openjdk/panama-foreign[Panama Foreign] fork of OpenJDK.
This allows us to test out the most recent version of the `jdk.incubator.foreign` APIs, but also make building, and local development more involved.
To simplify things, we have a Docker based build, controlled via a Makefile with the following commands: