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 <h3 id="solaris">Support for Solaris</h3>
 
 <p>
-Go 1.3 now includes experimental support for Solaris on the <code>amd64</code> (64-bit x86) architecture. It uses illumos, equivalent to Solaris 11 or above.
+Go 1.3 now includes experimental support for Solaris on the <code>amd64</code> (64-bit x86) architecture. It requires illumos, Solaris 11 or above.
 </p>
 
 <h2 id="memory">Changes to the memory model</h2>