diff --git a/docs/sources/index.rst b/docs/sources/index.rst
index 1fb82f3bec325661f7cc6af6f38fe46945986f51..c10ed2abf96d880a15d2a555b4dfe027f8dd7e8b 100644
--- a/docs/sources/index.rst
+++ b/docs/sources/index.rst
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@ dependencies.
 
 ``docker`` runs three ways:
 
-* as a daemon to manage LXC containers on your :ref:`Linux host
-  <kernel>` (``sudo docker -d``)
+* as a daemon to manage LXC containers on your host machine (``sudo docker -d``)
 * as a :ref:`CLI <cli>` which talks to the daemon's `REST API
   <api/docker_remote_api>`_ (``docker run ...``)
 * as a client of :ref:`Repositories <working_with_the_repository>`
diff --git a/docs/sources/installation/binaries.rst b/docs/sources/installation/binaries.rst
index 4da511b92ca9bd2fe1e244013900c538456a5bd4..611429f84a841d12076c9545f3dfd0dedca02b3c 100644
--- a/docs/sources/installation/binaries.rst
+++ b/docs/sources/installation/binaries.rst
@@ -16,15 +16,29 @@ Before following these directions, you should really check if a packaged version
 of Docker is already available for your distribution.  We have packages for many
 distributions, and more keep showing up all the time!
 
-Check Your Kernel
------------------
 
-Your host's Linux kernel must meet the Docker :ref:`kernel`
-
-Check for User Space Tools
+Check runtime dependencies
 --------------------------
 
-You must have a working installation of the `lxc <http://linuxcontainers.org>`_ utilities and library.
+To run properly, docker needs the following software to be installed at runtime:
+
+- GNU Tar version 1.26 or later
+- iproute2 version 3.5 or later (build after 2012-05-21), and specifically the "ip" utility
+- iptables version 1.4 or later
+- The LXC utility scripts (http://lxc.sourceforge.net) version 0.8 or later
+- Git version 1.7 or later
+- XZ Utils 4.9 or later
+
+
+Check kernel dependencies
+-------------------------
+
+Docker in daemon mode has specific kernel requirements. For details, see
+http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/articles/kernel/
+
+Note that Docker also has a client mode, which can run on virtually any linux kernel (it even builds
+on OSX!).
+
 
 Get the docker binary:
 ----------------------