diff --git a/README b/README
index 4345e43549..2668960846 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Running:
 Only the Motif version of GnuCash is currently functional.  The Gnome version
 will give you a taste for Gnome, and is coming along fine, but is probably not
 stable enough for regular use.   The qt/kde version doesn't compile, most 
-functions are missing.  See below for OS's other than Linux/*BSD support.
+functions are missing.  See below for OS's other than GNU/Linux/*BSD support.
 
 The following packages are required to be installed to run the gnucash 
 Motif binary:
@@ -314,17 +314,16 @@ gnucash.h, generated from gnucash.h.in.
 
 Supported OS's:
 ---------------
-GnuCash version 1.3.x is known to work in the following configs:
+GnuCash version 1.2.x is known to work in the following configs:
 
-Linux 2.x.x           -- Intel 
+GNU/Linux             -- Intel 
 FreeBSD               -- Intel
 OpenBSD               -- Intel
 
-Xacc-1.0.18, the predecessor to GnuCash, is known to work on the following
+Xacc-1.0.18, the predecessor to GnuCash, is known to work on these additional
 platforms:
 
 Slackware 3.4         -- Intel  w/ Mootif (OSF Motif 2.0.1)
-Linux 2.x.x           -- Intel  w/ Lesstif v0.81
 SGI IRIX              -- MIPS 
 IBM AIX 4.1.5         -- RS/6000   http://www-frec.bull.com/
 Unixware 7            -- Intel