Software Compatibility Families

System Compatibility
Linn takes a full system approach to compatibility. Full system compatibility is maintained only within Compatibility Families.

Upgrading
As a consequence of this system compatibility approach, when introducing additional Linn equipment into an existing system, all the componeents should be upgraded to the same family.
Before upgrading a product it is necessary to check all products in the system have a firmware release available for that family.
The Linn Config application will assist in identifying the current family of each product and availability of appropriate firmware releases.

Guarantees
The latest version of the Linn Config application guarantees to support reflash upgrade of any networked product (except Kisto and Kinos) to the newest firmware release for that hardware.

Availability of other Linn Config services is guaranteed only within the Compatibility Family.

The Linn GUI application supports control of products only within the Compatibility Family.

Beyond these guarantees, Linn seek to further maintain backwards compatibility, but sometimes this is not reasonably possible.

This table shows system compatibility across Linn’s products.

Compatibility Family	DS players and applications	Other products
Bute	Klimax DS 1.2 Akurate DS 1.1 Sneaky Music DS 1.1 Linn GUI 1.3 Linn Config 1.2	Klimax Kontrol (PCAS316LL1, S01020117 and S1020109) *Akurate Kontrol (B04210103) *Kinos (SP040V6) *Kisto (SP034V7)  *Unidisk 1.1(B01150102) *Unidisk 2.1 (B01160102) CD12 (SERVO 11 HDCD 2, S0450205) *Akurate CD (B04200102)
Auskerry	Klimax DS 1.1 Klimax DS 1.0 Akurate DS 1.0 Sneaky Music DS 1.0 Linn GUI 1.2 Linn GUI 1.1 Linn GUI 1.0 Linn Config 1.1 Linn Config 1.0	Klimax Kontrol (PCAS316LL1, S01020117 and S1020109) *Akurate Kontrol (B04210101) *Akurate CD (B04200102) CD12 (SERVO 11 HDCD 2, S0450205)

If any of the products marked with a * are connected to each other via RS232, the functionality of the system will not be available when a DS player is added.