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Ensure customers know that GitLab.com supports RHEL.

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doc/install/requirements.md
1 # Operating Systems 1 # Operating Systems
2 2
3 -## Linux  
4 -  
5 GitLab is developed for the Linux operating system. 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 - Ubuntu Linux 7 - Ubuntu Linux
10 - Debian/GNU Linux 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 - CentOS 13 - CentOS
  14 +- Oracle Linux
  15 +
  16 +## Not officially supported
  17 +
  18 +- Arch Linux
16 - Fedora 19 - Fedora
17 - Gentoo 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 # Hardware requirements 45 # Hardware requirements