В Чтв, 14/02/2013 в 11:48 -0800, Mahmood Naderan пишет:
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> >The Kernel in Scientific Linux is 2.6.32 
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> >Current version of Scientific Linux is 6.3 which is running the 2.6
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> So what should with the kernel? AMD bulldozer needs kernel > 2.6.
> Otherwise it will recognize only 4GB of memory (inspite there is 64GB
> RAM!)

RHEL kernels have a lot of backports from more fresh kernels.

Just look in computer/processor documentation about supported distros
and keep in mind compatibility between SL, CentOS and RHEL.

For ex. -- accordingly:

http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/51803A_OpteronLinuxTuningGuide_SCREEN.pdf

"Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.2 (includes KVM) and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux derivatives CentOS 6.2 and Scientific Linux 6.2" have
Linux kernel "that fully supports and enables the new features of the
AMD OpteronTM 4200/6200 Series processors".

> > You can always look on distrowatch.com
> Specifically, I am looking for a distribution which is released
> recently (say 2012) and has a support for libraries with 5 years old
> (2007).
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> Regards,
> Mahmood
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> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Jason Sizemore
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>         On 2/14/2013 2:15 PM, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
>                 Dear all,
>                 I am looking for a good long stable Linux distribution
>                 for servers. Currently we have ubuntu 12.04 with users
>                 that need wide services. Here are the main list of
>                 request.
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>                 Kernel > 3.0 (2011)
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>                 GCC/G++ 4.1 (2007)
>                 GCC/G++ 4.4 (2009)
>                 GCC/G++ 4.6 (2011)
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>                 libstdc++5 and 6
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>                 New versions of ubuntu drop the support for old
>                 libraries and it is getting really hard to maintain.
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>                 Can Scientific linux help us in this regard? Which
>                 version is suitable for us
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>                   Regards,
>                 Mahmood
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>         On the libs you could to it. The Kernel in Scientific Linux is
>         2.6.32 though. You could compile your own, but I would not
>         recommend it.
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> I think the newer versions of OpenSUSE use 3+. You can always look on
> distrowatch.com and it has a very large selection of linuxes/UNiXes,
> each with a table of major package versions broken down by distro
> release. 
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