MATLAB: Do I receive a warning message about GLIBC incompatibility when I start the MATLAB 7.10 (R2010a) on a system with glibc 2.5

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When starting the MATLAB 7.10 (R2010a) on a Linux machine with glibc 2.5 such as Red Hat 5 I receive the following warning message:
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 Warning: glibc 2.5      - Unsupported version
           glibc 2.7      - MATLAB built using this version
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 -> Your configuration APPEARS to be too OLD to run this MATLAB program!
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     For system requirements consult <http://www.mathworks.com> ...
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MATLAB starts but I want to make sure that I am able to use MATLAB on this computer.

Best Answer

The warning message occurs because some parts of MATLAB were built with higher glibc versions. However, the MATLAB 7.10 (R2010a) release has been validated against the following distributions:
- Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, and 9.10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x
- OpenSUSE 11.x
- Debian 5.x
These distributions are fully supported regadless of the warning message.
It is likely that other distributions with kernel version 2.6 or later and glibc version 2.5 or later can successfully run MathWorks products, but MathWorks will be in a limited position to provide technical support for those distributions. For other distributions, if MATLAB starts after the error message, there is a good chance that MATLAB will properly work on this system.
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