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1.3.1 System Requirements

The software currently supports the Linux platform and intel based Mac systems. Windows support is expected in a future release.

Please note: all flavors of Linux 32 bit edition and Linux 64 bit edition should be supported. However, due to the vast number of flavors, we were unable to test them all. If you run into any errors, please contact us, and let us know the error you received, as well as the linux edition and flavor you are running. Parts of this code has been tested on CentOS 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5, REHL 4, Ubuntu, Fedora 7, and Fedora 9.

Some errors have been reported using Mac OS X Lion. We are working to correct these problems.