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Ensure customers know that GitLab.com supports RHEL.

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# Operating Systems # Operating Systems
   
## Linux
GitLab is developed for the Linux operating system. GitLab is developed for the Linux operating system.
   
GitLab officially supports (recent versions of) these Linux distributions: ## GitLab officially supports
   
- Ubuntu Linux - Ubuntu Linux
- Debian/GNU 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 - CentOS
- Oracle Linux
## Not officially supported
- Arch Linux
- Fedora - Fedora
- Gentoo - Gentoo
- RHEL
   
## Other Unix Systems On the above distributions it is pretty easy to install GitLab yourself.
## Unsupported Unix Systems
   
There is nothing that prevents GitLab from running on other Unix operating There is nothing that prevents GitLab from running on other Unix operating systems.
systems. This means you may get it to work on systems running FreeBSD or OS X. This means you may get it to work on systems running FreeBSD or OS X.
**If you want to try, please proceed with caution!** 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.
   
## Windows ## Other operating systems such as Windows
   
GitLab does **not** run on Windows and we have no plans of supporting it in the GitLab does **not** run on Windows and we have no plans of supporting it in the near future.
near future. Please consider using a virtual machine to run GitLab. 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. GitLab requires Ruby (MRI) 1.9.3 or 2.0+.
While it is generally possible to use other Rubies (like While it is generally possible to use other Rubies
[JRuby](http://jruby.org/) or [Rubinius](http://rubini.us/)) it might require (like [JRuby](http://jruby.org/) or [Rubinius](http://rubini.us/))
some work on your part. it might require some work since GitLab uses several Gems that have native extensions.
   
   
# Hardware requirements # Hardware requirements
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