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Tested Linux platforms and distributions

IBM certifies that the latest release of the IBM Developer Kit for Linux®, Java™ 2 Technology Edition is Java compatible on the GA-level default installations of the following leading Linux distributors.

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Notes about these tables

"YES" indicates that the Developer Kit has been fully tested on a GA-level default installation of that particular distribution.

Support for certain languages might require additional packages or a different configuration from the GA-level default installation. If this is the case, the Developer Kit might not have been fully tested for that language on that particular distribution. Contact your Linux distributor's local support organization for more information.

The addressing capability of the JVM is shown by the headings in the second row of the table, labelled "SDK address space".



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Java SE 6 J2SE 5.0 J2SE 1.4.2

Hardware IA32 32-bit AMD64/EM64T 64-bit POWER 64-bit System z 31-bit System z 64-bit
SDK address space 32-bit 32-bit 64-bit 32-bit 64-bit 31-bit 31-bit 64-bit
SLES 9 YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
Novell Linux Desktop 9 YES              
SLES 10 /SLED 10 YES YES YES YES YES   YES YES
SLES 11 YES YES YES YES YES   YES YES
Red Hat EL 3 YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
Red Hat EL 4 YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
Red Hat EL 5 YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES



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