Golang不支持的平台

Question

Golang's installation guide found at https://golang.org/doc/install has a section titled "System requirements." In this section, one of the supported operating systems is "Linux 2.6.23 or later with glibc" but it includes the following note:

CentOS/RHEL 5.x not supported

This raises the following questions:

1. Why are these Linux distributions not supported?
2. Does this prevent users of these systems from using systems or software developed in Go?
3. Does this prevent users of these systems from developing software using Go?

Answer 1

These versions of Linux do not provide facilities used by the Go runtime. See https://dave.cheney.net/2013/06/18/how-to-install-go-1-1-on-centos-5 for details.