doc/start: edit os-recommendations.rst

Improve the grammar in one sentence of the "Platforms" section of
doc/start/os-recommendations.rst. Improving that grammar involved
splitting the sentence into two sentences, but that's life. Update:
Anthony substantially rewrote this, so credit for this should rightly
go to him.

Co-authored-by: Anthony D'Atri <anthony.datri@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Zac Dover <zac.dover@proton.me>
(cherry picked from commit e19b9cea62c56cbd73049957d69d5aac16a97c08)

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@@ -38,9 +38,11 @@ Platforms
 The chart below shows which Linux platforms Ceph provides packages for, and
 which platforms Ceph has been tested on. 
 
-Ceph does not depend upon any specific distributions and can run on any
-distribution with supported kernels and system initialization packages (
-`sysvinit` or `systemd`).
+Ceph does not require a specific Linux distribution. Ceph can run on any
+distribution that includes a supported kernel and supported system startup
+framework, for example ``sysvinit`` or ``systemd``. Ceph is sometimes ported to
+non-Linux systems but these are not supported by the core Ceph effort.
+
 
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