System requirements
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Your computer must satisfy the following requirements to run BOINC. BOINC-based projects may have additional requirements.
[edit] Windows
- Operating system
- Windows 98 or later, Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4
- Hardware
- Pentium 233 MHz (Recommended: Pentium 500 MHz or greater)
- 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater)
- 20 MB disk space
[edit] Macintosh
- Operating system
- Mac OS X 10.3 and later
- Hardware
- Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 or PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
- 128 MB RAM (Recommended: 256 MB RAM or greater)
- 200 MB disk space
[edit] Linux
- Operating system
- Linux kernel 2.2.14 or higher
- glibc 2.3.2 or higher
- BOINC uses file locking. If you run BOINC in an NFS-mounted directory, make sure the NFS lock daemon is working.
- For BOINC Manager and application graphics (optional):
- XFree86-3.3.6 or higher
- gtk+2.0 or higher
- Hardware
- Pentium 500 MHz or greater
- 64 MB RAM
- 50 MB disk space
[edit] Linux 64-bit notes
If you attach to a project with only 32-bit Linux applications, BOINC will try to run them. They will fail if you don't have the ia32 package and dependent packages installed. These packages are included with some Linux64 distributions but not others; for example, they are not installed by default with Ubuntu 6.10 and 7.04 (but can be installed manually).
Further, for application graphics to work, you may have to copy a 32-bit libglut library to the usr/lib32 directory. If the applications still get errors, find the executable in the projects directory and run ldd to see what libraries are missing.
