You can find details on http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/single_node_setup.html#PreReqs
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Thanos Papaoikonomou < thanos.papaoikono...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am a Hadoop newbie:) > I ld like to ask about the Hadoop's dependency on Linux. I have seen that > Hadoop is usually deployed in Linux machines and Windows is supported only > as a development platform through Cygwin. > Which are the Linux's "functionalities", libraries, packages etc needed by > Hadoop? > I can think of SSH, for the communication among nodes. > Is it something that i am missing here? > > Thank you, > Thanos > > -- Ashwanth Kumar / ashwanthkumar.in
