Editing System requirements (section)

=== Platform ===

A [[computing platform]] describes some sort of [[Software framework|framework]], either in [[computer hardware|hardware]] or [[software]], which allows software to run.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.techterms.com/definition/platform |title=Platform Definition |publisher=Techterms.com |access-date=2014-01-23}}</ref> Typical platforms include a computer's [[Computer architecture|architecture]], [[operating system]], or [[programming language]]s and their [[run-time system|runtime]] libraries.

[[Operating system]] is one of the requirements mentioned when defining system requirements (software). Software may not be compatible with different versions of same line of operating systems, although some measure of backward compatibility is often maintained. For example, most software designed for [[Microsoft Windows XP]] does not run on [[Microsoft Windows 98]], although the converse is not always true. Similarly, software designed using newer features of [[Linux Kernel]] v2.6 generally does not run or compile properly (or at all) on Linux distributions using Kernel v2.2 or v2.4.