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Erlang/OTP March 11, 2011
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LAST MINUTE INFORMATION -- Release of Erlang 5.8.3/OTP R14B02
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1.1 Installation Guide
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The installation guide can be found in
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<inst-root>doc/installation_guide/users_guide.html
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The Java sources were compiled using Java version 1.5.
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An installation of Erlang/OTP needs approximately 300 MB of
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1.4 The package contains HTML documentation. You can also get this
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documentation preformatted for printing in PDF format from
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http://www.erlang.se/doc/
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This site also contains HTML documentation for older releases
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1.5 The Erlang system can run old BEAM files compiled with R11B-2
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or later (and almost all BEAM files compiled with R11B-0 or
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R11B-1). BEAM files from R10B or earlier are not supported.
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To get the best performance, you should recompile your
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application code with the R14B02 compiler.
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2. NOTES ABOUT THE SOLARIS VERSION
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2.1 For the Sparc Solaris environment, Solaris8 (2.8) and above is
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supported. The emulator doesn't run on older Solaris versions.
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Also an Ultrasparc (sun4u architecture) is required.
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3. NOTES ABOUT THE VXWORKS VERSION
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3.1 The platform VxWorks is discontinued in the sense that only the
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libraries (erl_interface and ic's libraries) are supported. Running
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the Erlang emulator on VxWorks might still possible but it's no longer
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maintained. The VxWorks release is still packaged as a full release,
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but no support will be available for anything but the communication libraries.
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4 NOTES ABOUT THE LINUX VERSIONS
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4.1 The following linux distributions/version combinations are supported
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Suse 9.4 x86, Suse 10.1 x86, Suse 10.1 x86_64
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Commercial customers please visit http://www.erlang.se to find
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releases and more information. Commercial support is given through
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support@erlang.ericsson.se.
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Open source users please visit http://www.erlang.org and direct
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problems to the open source community through the mailing list.