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 CentOS 5).
11 \item Most flavors of Linux (Gentoo, Red Hat, Fedora, Mandriva,
12 Debian, OpenSuSE, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, ...).
13 \item Solaris various versions.
14 \item FreeBSD (tape driver supported in 1.30 -- for FreeBSD older than
15 version 5.0, please see some {\bf important} considerations in the
16 \ilink{ Tape Modes on FreeBSD}{FreeBSDTapes} section of the
17 Tape Testing chapter of this manual.)
18 \item Windows (Win98/Me, WinNT/2K/XP, Vista) Client (File daemon) binaries.
19 \item The Windows servers (Director and Storage daemon) are available
20 in the binary Client installer. The are reported to work in
21 many cases. However they are NOT supported.
22 \item MacOS X/Darwin (see \elink{ http://fink.sourceforge.net/}{http://fink.sourceforge.net/} for
23 obtaining the packages)
24 \item OpenBSD Client (File daemon).
25 \item Irix Client (File daemon).
27 \item Bacula is said to work on other systems (AIX, BSDI, HPUX, NetBSD, ...) but we
28 do not have first hand knowledge of these systems.
29 \item RHat 7.2 AS2, AS3, AS4, RHEL5, Fedora Core 2,3,4,5,6,7 SuSE SLES
30 7,8,9,10,10.1,10.2,10.3
31 and Debian Woody and Sarge Linux on
32 S/390 and Linux on zSeries.
33 \item See the Porting chapter of the Bacula Developer's Guide for information
34 on porting to other systems.
36 \item If you have a older Red Hat Linux system running the 2.4.x kernel and
37 you have the directory {\bf /lib/tls} installed on your system (normally by
38 default), bacula will {\bf NOT} run. This is the new pthreads library and it
39 is defective. You must remove this directory prior to running Bacula, or you
40 can simply change the name to {\bf /lib/tls-broken}) then you must reboot
41 your machine (one of the few times Linux must be rebooted). If you are not
42 able to remove/rename /lib/tls, an alternative is to set the environment
43 variable "LD\_ASSUME\_KERNEL=2.4.19" prior to executing Bacula. For this
44 option, you do not need to reboot, and all programs other than Bacula will
45 continue to use /lib/tls.
46 \item The above mentioned {\bf /lib/tls} problem does not occur with Linux 2.6 kernels.