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Supported Platforms

The following table indicates what platforms are supported for this release of SysInfo. This platform list is subject to change with each dot dot release of SysInfo.

SysInfo Class of Information
Man. OS Hard- ware Gen Ker Sys Dev SW Part Notes
IBMAIX 4.xrs6000 YNYYYY AIX 4.1.4 - 4.3.3 tested. AIX 3.2 - 4.1.3 should work, but are untested.
 BSD/OS 3.1, 4.0, 4.1x86 YYYYNY  
 FreeBSD 3.2 - 4.0x86 YYYYNY See Platform Notes
HPHP-UX 10.x - 11.xhp9000 YYNYYY HP-UX 10.20 - 11.00 tested. Older versions will probably work.
SGIIRIX 6.5MIPS YNYYYY IRIX 6.5 tested. IRIX 5.x - 6.4 may no longer work.
 Linux 2.2 (glibc 2.0)x86 YYYYYY Supported Distributions: Red Hat 6.0 and later, SuSe 6.1 and later. Other distributions with Linux kernel 2.2 + glibc 2.0 and later should work. See Platform Notes
SunSolaris 1.x (SunOS 4.1.x)SPARC YYYYNY SunOS 4.1.4 tested.
SunSolaris 2.x (SunOS 5.x)SPARC YYYYYY Solaris 2.5 - 8 (SunOS 5.5 - 5.8) verified working. See Platform Notes
SunSolaris 2.x (SunOS 5.x)x86 YYYYYY Solaris 2.6 - 8 (SunOS 5.6 - 5.8) tested on limited hardware.
KEY:
Y - Yes, it's supported
N - No, it's not supported
P - Planned
CLASS OF INFORMATION KEY:
Gen - General Information (-class general)
Ker - Kernel Information (-class kernel)
Sys - SysConf Information (-class sysconf)
Dev - Device Information (-class device)
SW - Software Information (-class software)
Part - Partition Information (-class partition)
 

License Information

In order to fund future improvements to SysInfo, a new license scheme is introduced with version 3.5. The new license allows no-cost use by non-profit (government and military organizations are not eligible) and educational institutions and requires payment for use by all other users. More information, including pricing is available by clicking here

SysInfo will automatically allow 60-days of free use for demonstration purposes whenever run if there is no license available.

SysInfo will automatically detect if it's being run on an educational or non-profit system if the domain name of the system is one of the known educational or non-profit domains. Currently this includes:

where CC is a country code. All other institutions must register and request a (free) license.

New Platform Support

AIX 4.3 SysInfo now supports AIX 4.3
Linux 2.2 on x86 This release adds Device class support for Linux systems.
Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8) Full support for all Solaris 8 systems, including 64-bit (UltraSPARC) systems.

Major New Features/Improvements

Changes added to 4.0

Changes from Previous Releases

Please see the Version 3.5 Release Notes for information about that release.

Platform Specific Notes

HP-UX When obtaining software class information on HP-UX, SysInfo may appear to be sluggish taking several minutes to gather information depending on the speed and hardware configuration of the system. It may also use lots of memory (20-70MB). These problems are due to the use of the HP-UX swlist command which is both slow in outputing information and copious in its output.
Solaris 7 and later Special compilation care is required on Solaris 7 and later. See the Solaris 7 and later compilation notes in the Installation documentation.
Sun/SPARC EDID VESA Extend Display Identification Data (EDID) for monitors appears to only be available from Creator Series 2 (FFB2) and later Creator frame buffers. No sign of EDID data on any other Sun framebuffer so far.
Linux Support for device class information is provided for Linux systems which run the Linux 2.2 or later kernel. Only devices connected to the PCI bus will be recognized by SysInfo even if Linux recognizes the device. Devices connected to ISA, EISA, MicroChannel, or other legacy buses will not be identified by SysInfo.
FreeBSD On FreeBSD 4.0 and later, devices on PCI buses are recognized. On releases prior to 4.0, both PCI and ISA bus devices are recognized. There is no EISA support.

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