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| author | Russell Dickenson <rdickenson@gitlab.com> | 2019-06-26 14:23:09 +1000 |
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| committer | Russell Dickenson <rdickenson@gitlab.com> | 2019-06-26 21:08:37 +1000 |
| commit | 95b0be9bb2aa5376ec4ac23f80190804597683ed (patch) | |
| tree | 8a326ad6c7b90bd0694ac7af91c8d66bf2bc29c7 | |
| parent | 39b9cfa0bfa889368013f89ed338f856873d1819 (diff) | |
| download | gitlab-ce-docs/requirements_operating_system.tar.gz | |
Clarified operating system typesdocs/requirements_operating_system
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/install/requirements.md b/doc/install/requirements.md index 92122fca7dd..68c1bcbc801 100644 --- a/doc/install/requirements.md +++ b/doc/install/requirements.md @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ as the hardware requirements that are needed to install and use GitLab. ## Operating Systems -### Supported Unix distributions +### Supported Linux distributions - Ubuntu - Debian @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ as the hardware requirements that are needed to install and use GitLab. For the installations options, see [the main installation page](README.md). -### Unsupported Unix distributions +### Unsupported Linux distributions and Unix-like operating systems - Arch Linux - Fedora @@ -29,13 +29,13 @@ For the installations options, see [the main installation page](README.md). - Gentoo - macOS -On the above unsupported distributions is still possible to install GitLab yourself. +Installation of GitLab on these operating systems is possible, but not supported. Please see the [installation from source guide](installation.md) and the [installation guides](https://about.gitlab.com/installation/) for more information. -### Non-Unix operating systems such as Windows +### Microsoft Windows -GitLab is developed for Unix operating systems. -It does **not** run on Windows, and we have no plans to support it in the near future. For the latest development status view this [issue](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/46567). +GitLab is developed for Linux-based operating systems. +It does **not** run on Microsoft Windows, and we have no plans to support it in the near future. For the latest development status view this [issue](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/46567). Please consider using a virtual machine to run GitLab. ## Ruby versions |