Hi all, I saw HDFS-6421 float by, which made me wonder what versions of Linux we support. The FAQ (http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/FAQ) just says "Linux", but clearly we need a version cut off somewhere.
I looked at a few vendor sites for the oldest supported RHEL version for their branch-2 based distros: Hortonworks: RHEL 5.7 Cloudera: RHEL 5.7 MapR: RHEL 6.1 Seems like Hortonworks and Cloudera would prefer if we standardized on ~RHEL 5.7+ for branch-2. Clearly there's Ubuntu, SLES, etc, but we need to start somewhere. Is this something we should agree on and then add to the wiki? A related page I found concerns Java versions ( http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HadoopJavaVersions), so we could add something similar. Thanks, Andrew p.s. Not saying we shouldn't fix HDFS-6421, this question about OS versions is obviously much broader than that one JIRA.
