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@@ -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