diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
index 0927a965dd3..37be5e6a96b 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
@@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ modules or loading DLLs using :mod:`ctypes`.
 (Contributed by Steve Dower in :issue:`36085`.)
 
 A new :func:`os.memfd_create` function was added to wrap the
-``memfd_create()`` syscall.
+Linux ``memfd_create()`` syscall.
 (Contributed by Zackery Spytz and Christian Heimes in :issue:`26836`.)
 
 On Windows, much of the manual logic for handling reparse points (including