System Requirements

Current Minimum System Requirements are as follows:

Linux PC

Just about any PC will do. Don't try to use a small memory footprint machine; however, 32M of memory should suffice. Most OpenSS7 drivers and modules do not use more than about 1M of kernel (combined). Intel architecture is not required. Most packages build on PPC, HPPA and other architectures supported by Linux. Also, Freescale systems running embedded Linux are also supported.

The following architectures are known to work:

ix86
x86_64
ppc (MCP 860)
ppc64

The architectures above are the architectures that are available to the project for creating test builds. In general, just about any architecture supporting a current Linux kernel is usable.

Linux Kernel

Current releases of OpenSS7 run nicely with kernels from 2.4.10 through 3.14. Any number of cores and process threads is supported, but the minimum is one (1). The releases packages run nicely on the following distributions:

CentOS Enterprise Linux 3.4 through 6.4
Debian Woody through Wheezy
Fedora Core 1 through Fedora 18 (later possible)
Gentoo 2006.1, 2007.1 (later possible)
Lineox 4.026, 4.053
Mandrakelinux 9.2, 10.0, 10.1, Mandriva LE2005, LE2006, One, MES 5.2, Mageia 1, 2
RedHat Linux 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9
RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0, 4, 5, 6 (7 possible)
SUSE 8.0, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0 thru 10.3, 11.0
SLES 9, 10, 11
openSUSE through to 11.4
Ubuntu 6.03 thru 11.04 (later possible)
WhiteBox 3.0, 4
Slackware/Salix 13.1 thru 13.37 (later possible)
Archlinux (current) LTS kernel 2012 through 2014

Other distributions should work as well. When installing from the tarball, the packages are probably compatible with a much broader array of distributions than those listed above. These are the distributions that we have available for creating and testing builds (at the time of writing).

Development Tool Chain

To develop from the CVS archive or to modify and then recompile the sources you will need the following tool chain:

m4 1.4.17 or newer
autoconf 2.69 or newer
automake 1.14.1 or newer
libtool 2.2.4 or newer
gettext 0.19.2 or newer
flex 2.5.39 or newer
bison 3.0.2 or newer
swig 3.0.2 or newer
texinfo 5.2 or newer

To build documentation, the build host also requires the following documentation tools:

gs 6.51 or newer
tetex 3.0 or newer
texinfo 5.2 or newer
transfig 3.2.3d or newer
imagemagick 5.3.8 or newer
groff 1.17.2 or newer
gnuplot 3.7 or newer
latex2html 1.62 or newer

This information was current at time of writing: in general, you need the most current GNU tool chain and corresponding tools. You need the same major version of gcc compiler as was used to compile the kernel: on some older systems this means using kgcc.

Currently we use Archlinux for development and in support of the Unexicon. This means that we are typically two years ahead of the package and kernel changes available in release-based Linux distributions such as RedHat Enterprise Linux. So, just about any current Linux distribution will do.

System Requirements

Description: OpenSS7 Resources System Requirements.