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Ensure customers know that GitLab.com supports RHEL.

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doc/install/requirements.md
1 1 # Operating Systems
2 2  
3   -## Linux
4   -
5 3 GitLab is developed for the Linux operating system.
6 4  
7   -GitLab officially supports (recent versions of) these Linux distributions:
  5 +## GitLab officially supports
8 6  
9 7 - Ubuntu Linux
10 8 - Debian/GNU Linux
11 9  
12   -It should also work on (though they are not officially supported):
  10 +## GitLab.com offers paid support for
13 11  
14   -- Arch
  12 +- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
15 13 - CentOS
  14 +- Oracle Linux
  15 +
  16 +## Not officially supported
  17 +
  18 +- Arch Linux
16 19 - Fedora
17 20 - Gentoo
18   -- RHEL
19 21  
20   -## Other Unix Systems
  22 +On the above distributions it is pretty easy to install GitLab yourself.
  23 +
  24 +## Unsupported Unix Systems
21 25  
22   -There is nothing that prevents GitLab from running on other Unix operating
23   -systems. This means you may get it to work on systems running FreeBSD or OS X.
24   -**If you want to try, please proceed with caution!**
  26 +There is nothing that prevents GitLab from running on other Unix operating systems.
  27 +This means you may get it to work on systems running FreeBSD or OS X.
  28 +If you want to do this, please be aware it could be a lot of work.
  29 +Please consider using a virtual machine to run GitLab.
25 30  
26   -## Windows
  31 +## Other operating systems such as Windows
27 32  
28   -GitLab does **not** run on Windows and we have no plans of supporting it in the
29   -near future. Please consider using a virtual machine to run GitLab.
  33 +GitLab does **not** run on Windows and we have no plans of supporting it in the near future.
  34 +Please consider using a virtual machine to run GitLab.
30 35  
31 36  
32   -# Rubies
  37 +# Ruby versions
33 38  
34   -GitLab requires Ruby (MRI) 1.9.3 and several Gems with native components.
35   -While it is generally possible to use other Rubies (like
36   -[JRuby](http://jruby.org/) or [Rubinius](http://rubini.us/)) it might require
37   -some work on your part.
  39 +GitLab requires Ruby (MRI) 1.9.3 or 2.0+.
  40 +While it is generally possible to use other Rubies
  41 +(like [JRuby](http://jruby.org/) or [Rubinius](http://rubini.us/))
  42 +it might require some work since GitLab uses several Gems that have native extensions.
38 43  
39 44  
40 45 # Hardware requirements
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