Supported Platforms¶
The OSG release series are supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) compatible platforms for 64-bit Intel architectures according to the following table:
Note
As of July 2020, only of a subset of the software stack is supported on RHEL 8-compatible platforms. The full software stack will be supported by the end of 2020. You can track packages released for EL8 through our release notes.
| Platform | OSG 3.5 | OSG 3.4 |
|---|---|---|
| CentOS 6 | ❌ | ✅ |
| CentOS 7 | ✅ | ✅ |
| CentOS 8 | ✅ | ❌ |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | ❌ | ✅ |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | ✅ | ✅ |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | ✅ | ❌ |
| Scientific Linux 6 | ❌ | ✅ |
| Scientifix Linux 7 | ✅ | ✅ |
OSG builds and tests its RPMs on the latest releases of the relevant platforms (e.g., in 2018, the RHEL 7 builds were based on RHEL 7.5).
Older platform release versions may not receive thorough testing and may have subtle bugs.
In particular, versions of RHEL/CentOS/SL 7 less than 7.5 have known issues with several pieces of software, including osg-oasis and xrootd-lcmaps.
If sites run into problems with one of those versions, we will ask them to update to the latest operating system packages as part of the support process.