Remove Linux OS and Node.js deprecation notes

[MikeMcC399]

Issue

The Linux section of App > Get Started > Install Cypress > System requirements > Operating System contains the following deprecation notices:

• Cypress deprecated the use of Node.js 16.x in Cypress 13.0.0. We recommend that users update to at least Node.js 18.x.
  For related reasons, Cypress deprecates the use of Linux operating systems with library glibc versions 2.17 - 2.27. The Linux CLI command ldd --version displays your glibc version.

With the release of Cypress 14.0.0 the deprecation notes are no longer necessary in this location as the information is now covered in the release notes. Leaving them here is likely to be confusing for readers, since Node.js 16.x is not simply deprecated, it is now no longer supported.

Cypress documentation is not versioned and, apart from history lists, it only documents the latest major version of Cypress.

Node.js min 18.x

1. App > Get Started > Install Cypress > System requirements > Node.js lists a minimum of Node.js 18.x
2. Release notes Cypress 14.0.0 > Breaking Changes lists

   Removed support for Node.js 16 and Node.js 21. Addresses #29930.

glib min 2.17

1. App > Get Started > Install Cypress > System requirements > Linux Prerequisites lists a minimum glibc >= 22.17.
2. This is not consistent with a minimum of Node.js 18.x. Node.js 18 requires a minimum of GLIBC 2.28 on x64 Linux systems (see https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v18.0.0/BUILDING.md#unix-prerequisites). Node.js 18.0.0 and later versions output the error message and will not run:

node: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by node)

3. See also note below where Cypress now requires glibc minimum 2.28

glibc min 2.28

1. The supported list of Linux operating systems under App > Get Started > Install Cypress > System requirements > Operating System excludes versions which do not meet the minimum version requirement glibc >= 22.28

   Ubuntu 20.04 and above, Fedora 40 and above, and Debian 11 and above

2. Release notes Cypress 14.0.0 > Breaking Changes lists

   Prebuilt binaries for Linux are no longer compatible with Linux distributions based on glibc <2.28, for example: Ubuntu 14-18, RHEL 7, CentOS 7, Amazon Linux 2. Addresses #29601.

Change

In the Linux section of App > Get Started > Install Cypress > System requirements > Operating System remove the deprecation notices which are now covered in the Cypress 14.0.0 > Breaking Changes release notes.

Remove the periods at the end of each operating system unordered list item to match formatting on the rest of the page for phrases which are not full sentences.

In the App > Get Started > Install Cypress > System requirements > Linux Prerequisites section, remove the outdated reference to glibc minimum of 22.17.

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[jennifer-shehane]

Good catch, should have been an update with 14 docs.

[MikeMcC399]

@jennifer-shehane

Good catch, should have been an update with 14 docs.

I haven't seen anybody confused by this so far, but it was worth cleaning up, especially as I've been working on this page anyway!