From b4ae96facbfc5884d482695b5bb0f986a5cf594c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Henry Oswald <henry.oswald@sharelatex.com>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 16:08:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] recommend debian/ubuntu

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 README.md | 3 +++
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@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ If you want to permanently remove ShareLaTeX from your docker containers:
 docker rm sharelatex
 ```
 
+### Operating systems
+We recommend a debian based operating system such as Ubuntu for ShareLaTeX, this is what the software has been developed using and most people use when running ShareLaTeX.
+
 ### Mongo and Redis
 
 ShareLaTeX depends on [MongoDB](http://www.mongodb.org/) (must be 2.4 or later, 3.x is recommended), and