diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md index 6723cbe732..3d6eddc33f 100644 --- a/docs/index.md +++ b/docs/index.md @@ -1596,26 +1596,22 @@ Environment variables and default values: | `--vmwarevsphere-compute-ip` | `VSPHERE_COMPUTE_IP` | - | ## Base Operating Systems -The default base operating system for Machine is Boot2Docker on local providers +The Machine provisioning system supports several base operating systems. +The default base operating system is Boot2Docker on local providers (VirtualBox, Fusion, Hyper-V, etc) and the latest Ubuntu LTS supported -by the cloud provider. RedHat Enterprise Linux is also supported. To use -RHEL, you will need to select the image accordingly with the provider. For -example, in Amazon EC2, you could use a RedHat 7.1 AMI ("ami-12663b7a") as the -`--amazonec2-ami` option which create an instance using RHEL 7.1 64-bit. +by the cloud provider. -## Release Notes +| Operating System | Version | Notes | +|----------------------------|------------------|-------------------------| +| Boot2Docker | 1.5+ | default for local | +| Ubuntu | 12.04+ | default for remote | +| Rancher | 0.3+ | | +| Debian | 8.0+ | experimental | +| RedHat Enterprise Linux | 7.0+ | experimental | +| CentOS | 7+ | experimental | +| Fedora | 21+ | experimental | -### Version 0.2.0 (April 16, 2015) - -For complete information on this release, see the [0.2.0 Milestone project page](https://github.com/docker/machine/wiki/0.2.0-Milestone-Project-Page). -In addition to bug fixes and refinements, this release adds the following: - -* Updated and refactored Driver interface For details, see -[PR #694](https://github.com/docker/machine/pull/694). - -* Initial creation of an internal API, so Machine can be used as a library. For -details, see [PR #553](https://github.com/docker/machine/issues/553). - -* Improvements and isolation of provisioning functionality, so Machine can -provision and configure the Docker Engine based on OS detection. For details, -see [PR #553](https://github.com/docker/machine/issues/553). +If you want to use a different base operating system on a remote provider, +you will need to select the image accordingly for that provider. For +example, on DigitalOcean you would use the `--digitalocean-image` flag. +For Amazon AWS, you would use the `--amazonec2-ami` flag.