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diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
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@@ -91,8 +91,9 @@
 <article>
 <section id="DevRequirements"><title>Development platform requirements</title>
         <para>
-        While the requirements for compiling the Nagios plugins release is very small,
-        to develop from CVS needs additional software to be installed. These are the 
+        Nagios plugins are developed to the GNU standard, so any OS which is supported by GNU
+        should run the plugins. While the requirements for compiling the Nagios plugins release 
+        is very small, to develop from CVS needs additional software to be installed. These are the 
         minimum levels of software required:
 
         <literallayout>