System Requirements

Description: OpenSS7 Resources System Requirements.

Current System Requirements are as follows:

1. Linux PC

Just about any PC will do. Don't try to use a small memory footprint machine; however, 32M of memory should suffice. Most OpenSS7 packages do not use more than about 1M of kernel. Intel architecture is not required. Most packages build on PPC, HPPA and other architectures supported by Linux. Also, the Performance Technologies NexusWare cards running embedded Linux are also supported.

The following architectures are supported:

• ix86
• x86_64
• ppc (MCP 860)
• ppc64

The architectures above are the architectures that are available to the project for creating test builds.

2. Linux 2.4 or 2.6 Kernel

STREAMS 0.7a.4 runs nicely with either 2.4 or 2.6 kernels. We have released 2.4 and 2.6 version of the SCTP and SS7 stacks. These will run on SMP as well. All of the release packages run nicely on the following distributions:

• CentOS Enterprise Linux 3.4 (centos34)
• CentOS Enterprise Linux 4.0 (centos4)
• CentOS Enterprise Linux 4.92 (centos49)
• CentOS Enterprise Linux 5.0 (centos5)
• CentOS Enterprise Linux 5.1 (centos51)
• CentOS Enterprise Linux 5.2 (centos52)
• Debian 3.0r2 Woody (deb3.0)
• Debian 3.1r0a Sarge (deb3.1)
• Debian 4.0r1 Etch (deb4.0)
• Debian 4.0r2 Etch (deb4.0)
• Debian 4.0r3 Etch (deb4.0)
• Fedora Core 1 (FC1)
• Fedora Core 2 (FC2)
• Fedora Core 3 (FC3)
• Fedora Core 4 (FC4)
• Fedora Core 5 (FC5)
• Fedora Core 6 (FC6)
• Fedora 7 (FC7)
• Fedora 8 (FC8)
• Fedora 9 (FC9)
• Gentoo 2006.1 (untested)
• Gentoo 2007.1 (untested)
• Lineox 4.026 (LEL4)
• Lineox 4.053 (LEL4)
• Mandrakelinux 9.2 (MDK92)
• Mandrakelinux 10.0 (MDK100)
• Mandrakelinux 10.1 (MDK101)
• Mandriva Linux LE2005 (MDK102)
• Mandriva Linux LE2006 (MDK103)
• Mandriva One (untested)
• RedHat Linux 7.2 (RH7)
• RedHat Linux 7.3 (RH7)
• RedHat Linux 8.0 (RH8)
• RedHat Linux 9 (RH9)
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0 (EL3)
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 (EL4)
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 (EL5)
• SuSE 8.0 Professional (SuSE8.0)
• SuSE 9.1 Personal (SuSE9.1)
• SuSE 9.2 Professional (SuSE9.2)
• SuSE OpenSuSE (SuSEOSS)
• SuSE 10.0 (SuSE10.0)
• SuSE 10.1 (SuSE10.1)
• SuSE 10.2 (SuSE10.2)
• SuSE 10.3 (SuSE10.3)
• SuSE 11.0 (SuSE11.0)
• SLES 9 (SLES9)
• SLES 9 SP2 (SLES9)
• SLES 9 SP3 (SLES9)
• SLES 10 (SLES10)
• Ubuntu 5.10 (ubu5.10)
• Ubuntu 6.03 (ubu6.03)
• Ubuntu 6.10 (ubu6.10)
• Ubuntu 7.04 (ubu7.04)
• Ubuntu 7.10 (ubu7.10)
• Ubuntu 8.04 (ubu8.04)
• WhiteBox Enterprise Linux 3.0 (WBEL3)
• WhiteBox Enterprise Linux 4 (WBEL4)

Other distributions should work as well. When installing from the tarball, the packages are probably compatible with a much broader array of distributions than those listed above. These are the distributions that the project has available for creating and testing builds.

3. Development Tool Chain

To develop from the CVS archive or to modify and then recompile the sources you will need the following tool chain:

• autoconf 2.63
• automake 1.10.1
• libtool 2.2.4
• gettext 0.17
• flex 2.5.33
• bison 2.3

To build documentation, the build host also requires the following documentation tools:

• gs 6.51 or newer
• tetex 3.0 or newer
• texinfo 4.13a
• transfig 3.2.3d or newer
• imagemagick 5.3.8 or newer
• groff 1.17.2 or newer
• gnuplot 3.7 or newer
• latex2html 1.62 or newer