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Operating System Certification - Present List

  Philippe Defert IT/DIS

As stated in CNL 224, here is the latest list of various versions of UNIX which we certify as working correctly with the CERN-recommended libraries, tools and utilities as of June 5th 1997:

• HP-UX 9.05 - certified   (but CERN support at the end of this year will be stopped, as explained in the article in CNL 226, "Closure of CERN Support for HP-UX 9 ...").
• HP-UX 10.20 - certified
• Solaris 2.5.1 - certified
• Digital UNIX 3.2.d - certified (but CERN support will end in the next year)
• Digital UNIX 4.0.b - certified
• AIX/6000 4.1.4 - certified

http://wsspinfo.cern.ch/file/certified.html.

The latest news on the certification procedure is always published in the newsgroup associated with each UNIX flavour (for example cern.hp, etc.), and summarised in the Web page listed above and in each CNL.