Operating system

Redis is capable of running on most flavors of Linux, BSD (Berkley Software Distribution), and macOS X. It is not recommended to run Redis on Windows. Microsoft has been supported a 64-bit port (still open source) of Redis. But at the time of writing this (February 2018), it has been several months since the last pull request and more than a year since the last release. In short, the Windows port does not appear to be actively maintained, so use it with caution.

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