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Sun Ultra 24 Workstation

Interoperability in a heterogeneous environment is important to IT managers. The Sun Ultra 24 Workstation is a 64-bit workstation that offers the widest available range of operating systems support — more than other workstations offered by Sun's competitors. Sun Ultra 24 Workstation supports multiple 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems, including Linux and Solaris. Sun Ultra 24 Workstation will also be listed in the Windows Catalog as being fully certified for the Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Professional x64. Table 20 shows the operating systems supported on Sun Ultra 24 Workstation.

Supported Operating Systems on Sun Ultra 24 Workstation

Linux
Operating System	Version	When Supported on Sun Ultra 24 Workstation	Pre-installed Option at the Factory?	Sold by Sun?	Supported by Sun?
Solaris 10	8/07(Update 4) & later	08/07 (Update 4)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4 (32-bit & 64-bit)		(32-bit & 64-bit) Update 5 and later	No	Yes	Yes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client 5 (32-bit & 64-bit)	Update 0 & later	(32-bit & 64-bit) Update 0	No	Yes	Yes
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (64-bit)	Service Pack 4 & later	(64-bit) Service Pack 3 and later	No	Yes	Yes
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (64-bit)	Service Pack 1 & later	(64-bit) Service Pack 1 and later	No	Yes	Yes
Ubuntu Linux	8.04LTS	8.04LTS	No	No	No
Windows
Windows Vista Client (32/64 bit)		Ultimate (32/64)	No	No	Yes
Windows Server 2003		R2 and SP2 (32-bit & 64-bit)	No	No	Yes
Windows XP Professional	Service Pack 2 & later	(32/x64) Service Pack 2 and later	No	No	Yes
Windows XP Professional x64	Service Pack 0 & later	Revenue Release	No	No	Yes

All Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS's, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server OS's, and Solaris 10 can be ordered from Sun. Support contracts are also available for these operating systems.

The Sun Ultra 24 Workstation will also be listed in the Windows Catalog as being fully certified for the Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Professional x64 and Windows Vista. It has earned the "Compatible with Windows" designation as a certified platform to run the Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Professional x64 Operating system. Sun Ultra 24 Workstation will be listed on the Microsoft Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) which can be seen by visiting the Microsoft Windows Hardware and Driver Central (WHDC) at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hcl/search.mspx. While qualified to run the Microsoft Windows XP Professional operating systems, these operating systems cannot be procured from Sun. However, Sun does support the Windows XP Professional operating systems.