Written by Andreas Mohr <andi@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de>
Modified by Dustin Navea <Speeddymon@sbcglobal.net>
This section only mentions the most basic system requirements of Wine, in order to ease your Wine "purchasing decision" ;-) For an up-to-date much more detailed list of requirements for compiling and/or installing Wine, please read the REQUIREMENTS section of the README file, which is also available in the main directory of a Wine source code tree.
In case of a binary Wine package, these Wine requirements will probably be fulfilled automatically by the package installation process; if you want to have a look at the detailed requirements nevertheless (which definitely can't hurt!), then I'd like to mention that the README file can also frequently be found in the documentation files directory of a Wine package.
In order to run Wine, you generally need the following:
A computer ;-)
Wine: only PCs >= i386 are supported at the moment.
Winelib: selected other platforms are supported, but can be tricky.
A UNIX-like operating system such as Linux, *BSD, Solaris x86, ReactOS, Cygwin
>= 32MB of RAM. Everything below is pretty much unusable. >= 96 MB is needed for "good" execution.
An X11 window system (XFree86 etc.). Wine is prepared for other graphics display drivers, but writing support is not too easy. The text console display driver (ttydrv) is nearly usable, so you don't necessarily have to install X11 if you don't need it for the programs you intend to run (in other words: mainly for text mode programs).