Commit 198e93cc authored by Riyad Preukschas's avatar Riyad Preukschas

Update hardware and platform requirements guide

parent 7591718e
_This installation guide created for Debian/Ubuntu and properly tested._
This installation guide was created for Debian/Ubuntu and tested on it.
Please read doc/install/requirements.md for hardware andplatform requirements.
_Checkout requirements before setup_
### IMPORTANT
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## Platform requirements:
# Hardware
**The project is designed for the Linux operating system.**
We recommend you to run GitLab on a server with at least 1GB RAM.
It may work on FreeBSD and Mac OS, but we don't test our application for these systems and can't guarantee stability and full functionality.
The necessary hard disk space largely depends on the size of the repos you want
to use GitLab with. But as a *rule of thumb* you should have at least as much
free space as your all repos combined take up.
We officially support (recent versions of) these Linux distributions:
# Operating Systems
## Linux
GitLab is developed for the Linux operating system.
GitLab officially supports (recent versions of) these Linux distributions:
- Ubuntu Linux
- Debian/GNU Linux
It should work on:
It should also work on (though they are not officially supported):
- Arch
- CentOS
- Fedora
- CentOs
- Gentoo
- RedHat
You might have some luck using these, but no guarantees:
## Other Unix 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 try, please proceed with caution!**
## Windows
GitLab does **not** run on Windows and we have no plans of supporting it in the
near future.
# Rubies
- FreeBSD will likely work, see https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/796
- MacOS X will likely work, see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gitlabhq/5IXHbPkjKLA
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 does **not** run on Windows and we have no plans of making GitLab compatible.
## Hardware:
# Installation troubles and reporting success or failure
We recommend to use server with at least 1GB RAM for gitlab instance.
If you have troubles installing GitLab following the official installation guide
or want to share your experience installing GitLab on a not officially supported
platform, please follow the the contribution guide (see CONTRIBUTING.md).
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