What are the minimum update releases of RHEL 4 and 5 required to support Sun Microsystems / Oracle America computers equipped with AMD 6-core processors codenamed "Istanbul"?
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- What are the minimum update releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 required to support Sun Microsystems / Oracle America computer equipped with AMD 6-core processors codenamed "Istanbul"?
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- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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Certified servers/workstations from Sun Microsystems that are equipped with 6-core AMD Opteron processors from the 2400 and 8400 series (codenamed "Istanbul") require, at minimum:
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 (for those certified to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4)
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 (for those certified to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5)
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Please see the Red Hat Hardware Catalog at http://hardware.redhat.com for a complete list of certified systems. Note that the requirements for Istanbul may necessitate the use of a newer update release of the OS than the one used during the original system certification.
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