4 \chapter{Supported Operating Systems}
6 \index[general]{Systems!Supported Operating }
7 \index[general]{Supported Operating Systems }
10 \item Linux systems (built and tested on SuSE 10.2).
11 \item Most flavors of Linux (Gentoo, Red Hat, Fedora, Mandriva, Debian, Ubuntu, ...).
12 \item Solaris various versions.
13 \item FreeBSD (tape driver supported in 1.30 -- for FreeBSD older than
14 version 5.0, please see some {\bf important} considerations in the
15 \ilink{ Tape Modes on FreeBSD}{FreeBSDTapes} section of the
16 Tape Testing chapter of this manual.)
17 \item Windows (Win98/Me, WinNT/2K/XP) Client (File daemon) binaries.
18 \item MacOS X/Darwin (see \elink{ http://fink.sourceforge.net/}{http://fink.sourceforge.net/} for
19 obtaining the packages)
20 \item OpenBSD Client (File daemon).
21 \item Irix Client (File daemon).
23 \item Bacula is said to work on other systems (AIX, BSDI, HPUX, NetBSD, ...) but we
24 do not have first hand knowledge of these systems.
25 \item RHat 7.2 AS2, AS3, AS4, Fedora Core 2,3,4,5, SuSE SLES 7,8,9,10,10.1 and Debian Woody and Sarge Linux on
26 S/390 and Linux on zSeries.
27 \item See the Porting chapter of the Bacula Developer's Guide for information
28 on porting to other systems.
30 \item If you have a older Red Hat Linux system running the 2.4.x kernel and
31 you have the directory {\bf /lib/tls} installed on your system (normally by
32 default), bacula will {\bf NOT} run. This is the new pthreads library and it
33 is defective. You must remove this directory prior to running Bacula, or you
34 can simply change the name to {\bf /lib/tls-broken}) then you must reboot
35 your machine (one of the few times Linux must be rebooted). If you are not
36 able to remove/rename /lib/tls, an alternative is to set the environment
37 variable "LD\_ASSUME\_KERNEL=2.4.19" prior to executing Bacula. For this
38 option, you do not need to reboot, and all programs other than Bacula will
39 continue to use /lib/tls.
40 \item The above mentioned {\bf /lib/tls} problem does not occur with Linux 2.6 kernels.