diff --git a/Building/Linux/BUILD_Linux.md b/Building/Linux/BUILD_Linux.md
index c210096e..e18e5c67 100644
--- a/Building/Linux/BUILD_Linux.md
+++ b/Building/Linux/BUILD_Linux.md
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+You will need either qtcreator or qttools5-dev-tools and a C++ compiler and linker
+
+Also, you need the packages qt5-default, libqt5serialport5, libqt5serailport5-dev and libqt5opengl5-dev
+
+Oscar can be built without its Help module with Qt5.7 SDK (for Debian Stretch, for example)
+
+The Help module (The Help texts are incomplete, and language support is incomplete) requires Qt5.9 SDK,
+additionally, the QT modules libqt5help5, qttools5-dev, and qttools5-dev-tools are required.
+
+Linux also needs libudev-dev and zlib1g-dev
+The current pre-built downloads use the distribution-supplied version of Qt.
 
 Shadow building is recommneded to avoid cluttering up the git source code folder.
 
diff --git a/README b/README
index d90b48c1..999b4680 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -14,23 +14,7 @@ Portions of OSCAR are copyright (c) 2019, 2020 by The OSCAR Team <oscar@oscar-te
 
 Minimum Requirements: 
 -------------------
-All systems need either qtcreator or qttools5-dev-tools and a C++ compiler and linker
-
-All systems need the packages qt5-default, libqt5serialport5, libqt5serailport5-dev and libqt5opengl5-dev
-
-Oscar can be built without the Help module with Qt5.7 SDK (for Debian Stretch, for example)
-
-The Help module (The Help texts are incomplete, and language support is incomplete) requires Qt5.9 SDK,
-additionally, the QT modules libqt5help5, qttools5-dev, and qttools5-dev-tools are required.
-
-Linux also needs libudev-dev and zlib1g-dev
-The current pre-built downloads use the distribution-supplied version of Qt.
-
-OSX needs an Xcode version that supports the version of Qt to be used, and commandline tools from AppStore,
-The current pre-built downloads use Qt5.12.8.
-
-Windows needs MinGW (in Qt5 SDK) or VC++2015 Community, and a matching set of Qt libraries.
-The current pre-built downloads use Qt5.12.8.
+All systems need a C++ compiler and linker and the QT platform download.
 
 Windows Building: See Building/Windows/BUILD-WIN.md
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