Is it mandatory to use the Ubuntu Linux download?


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Hi David,
Linux and Windows are the supported operating systems, but BSD, Mac OS/X, and OpenSolaris are known to work. (Windows requires the installation of Cygwin).

But to run Apache Hadoop you need some only Linux server OS like Centos, fedora, ubuntu, redhat, etc.

Thanks.


Does that mean the answer is NO? The question required a boolean response.

David,
You are right. It is not mandatory to use ubuntu.

Thanks.