Erlang/OTP September 13, 2013 Release of Erlang 5.10.3/OTP R16B02 1. GENERAL ------- 1.1 Installation Guide The installation guide can be found in doc/installation_guide/users_guide.html 1.2 Java The Java sources were compiled using Java version 1.5. 1.3 Disk space An installation of Erlang/OTP needs approximately 300 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 R15B compiler. 2. NOTES ABOUT THE SOLARIS VERSION ------------------------------- 2.1 For the Sparc Solaris environment, Solaris10 (2.10) and above is supported. The emulator runs on older Solaris 8 (2.8) versions and above. Older Solaris versions are neither tested nor supported. Also an Ultrasparc (sun4u architecture) is required. 3. NOTES ABOUT THE VXWORKS VERSION ------------------------------- 3.1 The platform VxWorks is discontinued in the sense that only the libraries (erl_interface and ic's libraries) are supported. 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 ----------------------------- 4.1 The following linux distributions/version combinations are supported and tested: SuSE 10.1 x86, SuSE 10.1 x86_64, SuSE 11.0 x86, SuSE 11.0 x86_64 5. APPLICATIONS NOTES ------------------ 6. MORE INFORMATION ---------------- 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.