4. Hardware and Software Requirements

4.1. Supported, Required, and Recommended Hardware

• At least a 486DX33 with 16MB RAM is required. A Pentium or Pentium Pro and more main memory is recommended. A 386 or a system with 8MB or less memory is an insufficient configuration.
• There are no specific requirements concerning network cards, disk types, or CD ROM equipment; of course the more powerful, the better.
• Depending on the packages installed, a disk space of 20-55MB on a HPFS formatted partition (or a JFS, NFS or ext2fs partition natively allowing long filenames) is required. XFree86/OS2 will not run on FAT partitions.
• You need a video card that is supported by XFree86. Refer to the general README document for a list of supported cards. Note that the sets of video cards supported by XFree86 on one hand and OS/2 on the other hand overlap, but do not match exactly, i.e. the fact that your card is supported by OS/2 does not mean it works with XFree86 as well, and vice versa. XFree86 does not use the video services of the OS/2 operating system.

4.2. Required Software

• Any version of Warp 3 with at least fixpack 17, or Warp 4 is required
• XFree86/OS2-3.3.6 may use a local named-pipe connection or a TCP/IP based network connection.
  1. Warp comes with the Internet Access Kit (IAK), which is sufficient. Warp Connect and Warp Server come with a full version of TCP/IP (3.0). Use of this software is preferred over IAK then.
  2. Warp 4 comes with TCP/IP 4.0 which should also work.
  3. There are reports that with EMX 0.9 fix 4, you can also use the new 32 bit IBM TCP/IP 4.1 product.
  4. The old IBM TCP/IP 2.0, that comes with the IBM PMX product may be used with Warp as well, although it is no longer supported by IBM. Please ensure that you have the latest CSDs installed.
  Other versions of TCP/IP, such as FTP's, DEC's, or Hummingbird's TCP/IP versions, as well as IBM TCP/IP 1.X are not supported. Nor does any networking support from DOS (packet drivers, winsock), Netware, or NetBIOS work, and I won't to provide support for that in the future.
• If you want to write or port applications for XFree86, you are encouraged to do so. You will need a complete installation of EMX/gcc 0.9C fix4 or later for doing so. Neither the second (obsolete) implementation of gcc, nor any commercial package, including Cset/2, VAC++, Borland C++/OS2, Watcom C++, Metaware C, and others, is suitable for porting, because various parts of the X DLLs rely on certain features only present with EMX.