Hello Everyone,

At the tech board meeting today I brought up the topic of supported Linux distros/operating systems. We came up with the following proposal, but want community feedback before any decision is made. If you want a distro/OS added, please reply saying so and provide a compelling reason why the proposed distro/OS should be supported by DPDK, or why you think that more or fewer versions should be supported. The policy is as follows;

Supported Distros/OSes:

* Alpine
* Arch
* CentOS Stream
* Debian
* Fedora
* Fedora Rawhide
* FreeBSD
* OpenSUSE Leap
* RHEL
* Ubuntu
* Windows

Supported Versions:

Distros or OS versions in General Support will be tested. Support will be dropped for EOL versions or versions older than 5 years.

RHEL 7 has been granted an expectation to this due to widespread use, and will continue to be supported until the tech board decides it is out of widespread use.

Additionally, "binary compatible" distros will have a single distro selected for testing. For example, RHEL 7 will be treated as providing testing for CentOS 7.

Owen Hilyard
UNH InterOperability Lab