Sun Studio 12 Quick Installation (English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese)

System Requirements

Sun Studio 12 software supports the hardware and operating system requirements shown in Table 1–1.

Note –

For further disk space requirements and important last minute information about this release, see the release notes at http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/documentation/ss12/release_notesML.html.

Table 1–1 System Requirements


	Solaris OS on SPARC based systems	Solaris OS on x86 based systems	Linux OS on x86 based systems
Operating system	Solaris 9, Solaris 10 1/06 and subsequent Solaris 10 OS updates		SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 with Service Pack 3 RedHat Enterprise Linux 4
CPU	SPARC architecture: Recommended: Sun Ultra 45 Workstation (two 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC IIIi processors) Minimum: Sun Ultra 60 (450 MHz, UltraSPARC II processor) or Sun Blade 2500 (one 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC IIIi processor) for better IDE performance	x86 architecture (32–bit): Minimum: Pentium III 500-MHz Workstation x64 architecture (64–bit): Recommended: Sun Ultra 40 Workstation (two AMD/Opteron 200/2000 series processors) Minimum: Sun Fire v20x Server
Memory	Recommended: 1 to 2 GB Minimum: 512 MB (more may be needed for working with large projects in the IDE)
Disk space (Use the `df -k` command to check your disk space.)	1.5 GB	1.1 GB	1 GB
Swap space	Recommended: 2 to 4 GB Minimum: 1 GB To add swap space to your system, see Adding Swap Space
Operating system configuration	Entire Solaris Software Group Plus OEM Support, Entire Solaris Software Group, or Developer Solaris Software Group (To determine your operating system configuration, you need to verify the installed packages. Specific packages are installed for each configuration. See the Solaris OS installation documentation for more details.)		Must include the Development/Libraries Package Group.