OpenSUSE 12.1/12.2 meets those requirements, and the community support is good.
Daniel Daniel Newkirk Graduate Student Yokomori Lab, Xie Lab Dept. of Biological Chemistry, UCI tel: 949-824-2158 email: [email protected] On Feb 14, 2013, at 11:44 AM, Jason Bronner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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.
