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\chapter{Supported Operating Systems}
\label{SupportedOSes}
\index[general]{Systems!Supported Operating }
\index[general]{Supported Operating Systems }

\begin{itemize}
\item Linux systems (built and tested on SuSE 10.2).
\item Most flavors of Linux (Gentoo, Red Hat, Fedora, Mandriva, Debian, Ubuntu, ...).  
\item Solaris various versions.  
\item FreeBSD (tape driver supported in 1.30 -- for FreeBSD older than
   version 5.0, please see some  {\bf important} considerations in the 
   \ilink{ Tape Modes on FreeBSD}{FreeBSDTapes}  section of the
   Tape Testing chapter of this manual.)  
\item Windows (Win98/Me, WinNT/2K/XP) Client (File daemon) binaries.  
\item Windows Vista VSS (Volume Shadow Copy) is reported not to work
      with Bacula.
\item The Windows servers (Director and Storage daemon) are available
      in the binary Client installer.  The are reported to work in     
      many cases.  However they are NOT supported.   
\item MacOS X/Darwin (see \elink{ http://fink.sourceforge.net/}{http://fink.sourceforge.net/} for
   obtaining the packages)  
\item OpenBSD Client (File daemon).  
\item Irix Client (File daemon).  
\item Tru64  
\item Bacula is said to work on other systems (AIX, BSDI, HPUX, NetBSD, ...) but we
   do not have first hand knowledge  of these systems. 
\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
   S/390 and Linux on zSeries.
\item See the Porting chapter of the Bacula Developer's Guide  for information
   on porting to other systems. 

\item If you have a older Red Hat Linux system running the 2.4.x kernel  and
   you have the directory {\bf /lib/tls} installed on your  system (normally by
   default), bacula will {\bf NOT} run. This is  the new pthreads library and it
   is defective. You must remove  this directory prior to running Bacula, or you
   can simply change  the name to {\bf /lib/tls-broken}) then you must reboot
   your  machine (one of the few times Linux must be rebooted). If  you are not
   able to remove/rename /lib/tls, an alternative is to  set the environment
   variable "LD\_ASSUME\_KERNEL=2.4.19" prior to  executing Bacula. For this
   option, you do not need to reboot, and  all programs other than Bacula will
   continue to use /lib/tls.  
\item The above mentioned {\bf /lib/tls} problem does not occur with Linux 2.6 kernels.

\end{itemize}
