The following Linux* distributions were successfully used to generate or run DPDK.
FreeBSD* 10
Fedora release 20
Ubuntu* 14.04 LTS
Wind River* Linux* 6
Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 6.5
SUSE Enterprise Linux* 11 SP3
These distributions may need additional packages that are not installed by default, or a specific kernel.
Refer to the DPDK Getting Started Guide for details.