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
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- 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.
