From a34dabd85c9cb64b92b22cd9cb91864387e408d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sytse Sijbrandij <sytses@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:49:00 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Simplify the supported/unsupported sections of the requirements guide. --- doc/install/requirements.md | 22 +++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/install/requirements.md b/doc/install/requirements.md index 110b7a8212aa2..5713b945a4213 100644 --- a/doc/install/requirements.md +++ b/doc/install/requirements.md @@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ ## Operating Systems -GitLab is developed for the Linux operating system. -For the installations options and instructions please see [the installation section of the readme](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/README.md#installation). +GitLab is developed for Unix operating systems. +For the installations options please see [the installation page in the GitLab website](https://about.gitlab.com/installation/). -### Supported Linux distributions +### Supported Unix distributions - Ubuntu - Debian @@ -14,22 +14,18 @@ For the installations options and instructions please see [the installation sect - Scientific Linux - Oracle Linux -### Unsupported Linux distributions +### Unsupported Unix distributions +- OS X - Arch Linux - Fedora - Gentoo +- FreeBSD -But on the above unsupported distributions is still possible to install GitLab yourself with the [manual installation guide](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/master/doc/install/installation.md). +On the above unsupported distributions is still possible to install GitLab yourself. +Please see the [manual installation guide](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/master/doc/install/installation.md) and the [unofficial installation guides](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-public-wiki/wiki/Unofficial-Installation-Guides) on the public wiki for more information. -### Unsupported Unix operating systems - -There is nothing that prevents GitLab from running on other Unix operating systems. -This means you may get it to work on systems running FreeBSD or OS X. -If you want to do this, please be aware it could be a lot of work. -Please consider using a virtual machine to run GitLab. - -### Other operating systems such as Windows +### Non Unix operating systems such as Windows GitLab does **not** run on Windows and we have no plans of supporting it in the near future. Please consider using a virtual machine to run GitLab. -- GitLab