Erlang/OTP                                               Dec 3, 2006


LAST MINUTE INFORMATION -- Release of Erlang 5.6/OTP R12B


1.      GENERAL
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1.1     Installation Guide

        The installation guide can be found in

                <inst-root>/doc/installation_guide/part_frame.html

1.2     Java

        The Java sources for Solaris were compiled using JDK 1.2.2;
	for the other platforms using JDK 1.4.2.

1.3     Disk space

        An installation of Erlang/OTP needs approximately 115 MB of
        disk space.

1.4     The package contains HTML documentation. You can also get this
        documentation preformatted for printing in PDF format from

            http://www.erlang.se/doc/

        This site also contains HTML documentation for older releases
        as a reference.

1.5     The Erlang system can run old BEAM files compiled with R11B-2
	or later (and almost all BEAM files compiled with R11B-0 or
	R11B-1). BEAM files from R10B or earlier are not supported.

	To get the best performance, you should recompile your
	application code with the R12B compiler.


2.      NOTES ABOUT THE SOLARIS VERSION
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2.1	For the Sparc Solaris environment, Solaris8 (2.8) and above is 
	supported. The emulator doesn't run on older Solaris versions.
	Also an Ultrasparc (sun4u architecture) is required.


3.      NOTES ABOUT THE VXWORKS VERSION
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3.1	The platform VxWorks is discontinued in the sense that only the 
	libraries (erl_interface and ic's libraries) are supported. Running
	the Erlang emulator on VxWorks might still possible but it's no longer
	maintained. The VxWorks release is still packaged as a full release,
	but no support will be available for anything but the communication libraries. 

4       NOTES ABOUT THE LINUX VERSIONS
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4.1     The following linux distributions/version combinations are supported 
	and tested:
	
	Suse 9.2 x86		
	Montavista/PPC

5.      APPLICATIONS NOTES
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6.      MORE INFORMATION
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	Commercial customers please visit http://www.erlang.se to find 
	releases and more information. Commercial support is given through
	support@erlang.ericsson.se.

	Open source users please visit http://www.erlang.org and direct 
	problems to the open source community through the mailing list. 
