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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.

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	YES
SLES 11	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
Red Hat EL 6	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES

Notes about this table

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

Support for certain languages may require additional packages or a different configuration from the GA-level default installation. If this is the case, the developer Kit may 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".

For information about POWER7™ support please see the IBM SDK POWER7 support information page.

For information about support on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6, please see Supported levels, recommended settings and known problems.