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Suggested OS Patches by Operating System

All Lymeware products assume a stable operating system as a requirement for performance and compatability. Lymeware Corporation recommends the following patches, service packs, upgrades, and "enhancements" as minimum requirements for stable platforms. Our products are only tested and actively supported on reference platforms configured as stated below.

Currently Supported Reference Platforms

Actively Maintained (no longer Reference) Platforms

Sun Solaris on SPARC and x86 platforms

Sun Solaris patches may be found at their BigAdmin site. Lymeware also strongly recommends Sun's Free PatchPro 2.2 (not the web tool - PatchPro Expert), which can be found on the Sun OS Patches page. We currently support the following versions of Solaris with the listed patches:

Sun Solaris 9 on UltraSPARC platforms

Sun Solaris 8 on UltraSPARC platforms

Sun Solaris 7 on UltraSPARC platforms

Sun Solaris 2.6 on SuperSPARC platforms

Sun Solaris 2.6 on X86 platforms

Sun Solaris 2.5.1 on SuperSPARC platforms

Red Hat Linux on x86 platforms

Red Hat "patches" (RPM upgrades really) may be found at their Red Hat Linux Errata page. We recommend that Red Hat platforms are kept current either with the Red Hat Network Software Manager (which we use internally) or by purchasing Update CDs directly from Red Hat. For more information on both of these options see Red Hat Update Service Packages. We currently support the following versions of Red Hat (automatically updated monthly):

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 (WS,ES,AS) on x86 platforms

Red Hat Linux 9 on x86 platforms

Red Hat Linux 8.0 on x86 platforms

Red Hat Linux 7.3 on x86 platforms

Red Hat Linux 6.2 on x86 platforms

Red Hat Linux 5.2 on x86 platforms

Red Hat CygWin on win32/X86 platforms

Red Hat CygWin upgrades may be found at their CygWin Homepage. We recommend that CygWin platforms are kept current both with the Windows Update service (which can be found under the Tools menu in IE 5.X) and with the CygWin Net Release Setup Program (setup.exe). We currently support the following versions of Red Hat CygWin (automatically updated monthly):

Red Hat CygWin (DLL version 1.3.2) on win32 (x86) platforms

TurboLinux Server 4.0 on x86 platforms

TurboLinux upgrades are via manual FTP from their FTP repository or at the mirror. The majority of their support information is found on one of the three company-sponsored mailing lists found here. We do not actively support this platform, except for current customers already on TurboLinux.

SCO OpenServer 5.X on x86 platforms

SCO (was Caldera for a while) OpenServer 5.x upgrades may be found at their OpenServer 5 Patches and Supplements page. NOTE: We STRONGLY recommend that anyone still using SCO OpenServer 5 platforms migrate, as soon as possible, to either Solaris or a well known Linux distribution. OpenServer 5 is very old and has not seen any patch or supplement activity in a few years. We do have extensive experience in migration from SCO OpenServer 5.X. We do not actively support this platform, except for current customers still on OpenServer 5.