                              Wine Documentation                               
Prev                        Chapter 1. Introduction                        Next
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1.2. Wine Requirements and Features

Written by Andreas Mohr <amohr@codeweavers.com>

1.2.1. System requirements

In order to run Wine, you need the following:

  * a computer ;-) Wine: only PCs >= i386 are supported at the moment. Winelib:
    other platforms might be supported, but can be tricky.
   
  * a UNIX-like operating system such as Linux, *BSD, Solaris x86
   
  * >= 16MB of RAM. Everything below is pretty much unusable. >= 64 MB is
    needed for a "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 is nearly usable.
   
1.2.2. Wine capabilities

Now that you hopefully managed to fulfill the requirements mentioned above, we
tell you what Wine is able to do/support:

  * Support for executing DOS, Win 3.x and Win9x/NT/Win2000 programs (most of
    Win32's controls are supported)
   
  * Optional use of external vendor DLLs (e.g. original Windows DLLs)
   
  * X11-based graphics display (remote display to any X terminal possible),
    text mode console
   
  * Desktop-in-a-box or mixable windows
   
  * Pretty advanced DirectX support for games
   
  * Good support for sound, alternative input devices
   
  * Printing: supports native Win16 printer drivers, Internal PostScript driver
   
  * Modems, serial devices are supported
   
  * Winsock TCP/IP networking
   
  * ASPI interface (SCSI) support for scanners, CD writers, ...
   
  * Unicode support, relatively advanced language support
   
  * Wine debugger and configurable trace logging messages
   
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Prev                                 Home                                 Next
Introduction                          Up                          Getting Wine
