[newlib-cygwin/main] Cygwin: faq: fix supported windows version claim
Corinna Vinschen
corinna@sourceware.org
Tue Mar 11 10:20:43 GMT 2025
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=8e2da4b223936bbf3329d5dd1658429b30b6d50d
commit 8e2da4b223936bbf3329d5dd1658429b30b6d50d
Author: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
AuthorDate: Tue Mar 11 11:20:12 2025 +0100
Commit: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
CommitDate: Tue Mar 11 11:20:12 2025 +0100
Cygwin: faq: fix supported windows version claim
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
Diff:
---
winsup/doc/faq-what.xml | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/winsup/doc/faq-what.xml b/winsup/doc/faq-what.xml
index 4bdbf4effd91..04bd8e54bf84 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/faq-what.xml
+++ b/winsup/doc/faq-what.xml
@@ -30,11 +30,11 @@ They can be used from one of the provided Unix shells like bash, tcsh or zsh.
<question><para>What versions of Windows are supported?</para></question>
<answer>
-<para>Cygwin can be expected to run on all modern, released versions of Windows.
-This includes Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and all later versions of
-Windows, except Windows S mode due to its limitations, on 64 bit AMD/Intel
-compatible PCs, and under x64 emulation on ARM PCs running Windows 11.</para>
-
+<para>Cygwin can be expected to run on all modern, released 64 bit versions of
+Windows. This includes Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2 and all later
+versions of Windows on AMD/Intel compatible PCs, as well as under x64 emulation
+on ARM PCs running Windows 11. Windows S mode is not supported due to its
+limitations, </para>
<para>Keep in mind that Cygwin can only do as much as the underlying OS
supports. Because of this, Cygwin will behave differently, and
exhibit different limitations, on the various versions of Windows.
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