From b5ea6aa11c8313cf1db4609e54dfb54596ccdac4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sytse Sijbrandij Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:38:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Ensure customers know that GitLab.com supports RHEL. --- doc/install/requirements.md | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/install/requirements.md b/doc/install/requirements.md index a9dd3481059..e9c95ba2ef9 100644 --- a/doc/install/requirements.md +++ b/doc/install/requirements.md @@ -1,40 +1,45 @@ # Operating Systems -## Linux - GitLab is developed for the Linux operating system. -GitLab officially supports (recent versions of) these Linux distributions: +## GitLab officially supports - Ubuntu Linux - Debian/GNU Linux -It should also work on (though they are not officially supported): +## GitLab.com offers paid support for -- Arch +- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) - CentOS +- Oracle Linux + +## Not officially supported + +- Arch Linux - Fedora - Gentoo -- RHEL -## Other Unix Systems +On the above distributions it is pretty easy to install GitLab yourself. -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 try, please proceed with caution!** +## Unsupported Unix Systems -## Windows +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. -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. +## Other 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. -# Rubies +# Ruby versions -GitLab requires Ruby (MRI) 1.9.3 and several Gems with native components. -While it is generally possible to use other Rubies (like -[JRuby](http://jruby.org/) or [Rubinius](http://rubini.us/)) it might require -some work on your part. +GitLab requires Ruby (MRI) 1.9.3 or 2.0+. +While it is generally possible to use other Rubies +(like [JRuby](http://jruby.org/) or [Rubinius](http://rubini.us/)) +it might require some work since GitLab uses several Gems that have native extensions. # Hardware requirements