>The Kernel in Scientific Linux is 2.6.32
>Current version of Scientific Linux is 6.3 which is running the 2.6 kernel
So what should with the kernel? AMD bulldozer needs kernel > 2.6.
Otherwise it will recognize only 4GB of memory (inspite there is 64GB RAM!)
> You can always look on distrowatch.com
Specifically, I am looking for a distribution which is released recently (say
2012) and has a support for libraries with 5 years old (2007).
Regards,
Mahmood
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From: Jason Bronner <[email protected]>
To: Jason Sizemore <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected];
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: Lokking for stable linux
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Jason Sizemore <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2/14/2013 2:15 PM, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
>
>Dear all,
>>I am looking for a good long stable Linux distribution for servers. Currently
>>we have ubuntu 12.04 with users that need wide services. Here are the main
>>list of request.
>>
>>Kernel > 3.0 (2011)
>>
>>GCC/G++ 4.1 (2007)
>>GCC/G++ 4.4 (2009)
>>GCC/G++ 4.6 (2011)
>>
>>libstdc++5 and 6
>>
>>New versions of ubuntu drop the support for old libraries and it is getting
>>really hard to maintain.
>>
>>Can Scientific linux help us in this regard? Which version is suitable for us
>>
>> Regards,
>>Mahmood
>>
>
On the libs you could to it. The Kernel in Scientific Linux is 2.6.32 though.
You could compile your own, but I would not recommend it.
>
I think the newer versions of OpenSUSE use 3+. You can always look on
distrowatch.com and it has a very large selection of linuxes/UNiXes, each with
a table of major package versions broken down by distro release.
