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      1 Erlang/OTP                                               Dec 3, 2006
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      3 
      4 LAST MINUTE INFORMATION -- Release of Erlang 5.6/OTP R12B
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      6 
      7 1.      GENERAL
      8         -------
      9 
     10 1.1     Installation Guide
     11 
     12         The installation guide can be found in
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     14                 <inst-root>/doc/installation_guide/part_frame.html
     15 
     16 1.2     Java
     17 
     18         The Java sources for Solaris were compiled using JDK 1.2.2;
     19 	for the other platforms using JDK 1.4.2.
     20 
     21 1.3     Disk space
     22 
     23         An installation of Erlang/OTP needs approximately 115 MB of
     24         disk space.
     25 
     26 1.4     The package contains HTML documentation. You can also get this
     27         documentation preformatted for printing in PDF format from
     28 
     29             http://www.erlang.se/doc/
     30 
     31         This site also contains HTML documentation for older releases
     32         as a reference.
     33 
     34 1.5     The Erlang system can run old BEAM files compiled with R11B-2
     35 	or later (and almost all BEAM files compiled with R11B-0 or
     36 	R11B-1). BEAM files from R10B or earlier are not supported.
     37 
     38 	To get the best performance, you should recompile your
     39 	application code with the R12B compiler.
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     41 
     42 2.      NOTES ABOUT THE SOLARIS VERSION
     43         -------------------------------
     44 
     45 2.1	For the Sparc Solaris environment, Solaris8 (2.8) and above is 
     46 	supported. The emulator doesn't run on older Solaris versions.
     47 	Also an Ultrasparc (sun4u architecture) is required.
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     49 
     50 3.      NOTES ABOUT THE VXWORKS VERSION
     51         -------------------------------
     52 
     53 3.1	The platform VxWorks is discontinued in the sense that only the 
     54 	libraries (erl_interface and ic's libraries) are supported. Running
     55 	the Erlang emulator on VxWorks might still possible but it's no longer
     56 	maintained. The VxWorks release is still packaged as a full release,
     57 	but no support will be available for anything but the communication libraries. 
     58 
     59 4       NOTES ABOUT THE LINUX VERSIONS
     60         -----------------------------
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     62 4.1     The following linux distributions/version combinations are supported 
     63 	and tested:
     64 	
     65 	Suse 9.2 x86		
     66 	Montavista/PPC
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     68 5.      APPLICATIONS NOTES
     69         ------------------
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     72 6.      MORE INFORMATION
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     74 
     75 	Commercial customers please visit http://www.erlang.se to find 
     76 	releases and more information. Commercial support is given through
     77 	support (a] erlang.ericsson.se.
     78 
     79 	Open source users please visit http://www.erlang.org and direct 
     80 	problems to the open source community through the mailing list. 
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