<html> <head> <title> Technical Requirements </title> </head> <h1 align=center> Technical Requirements </h1> <hr size="3"> <font size="-1" color=RED> garlic, free molecular viewer and editor, free molecular visualization program, protein structure, DNA structure, PDB, molecular rendering, biological macromolecule, Unix, Linux, free software download, open source software, Damir Zucic. </font> <hr size="3"> Garlic tends to be POSIX compliant. It is also ANSI C compliant, to the maximum possible extent. Xlib functions are the only non-ANSI functions used by this program. <hr size="3"> <font color=DARKRED> <b> OPERATING SYSTEM </b> </font> <br> Unix or Unix clone and the X window system. Linux and XFree86 recommended. <br><br> <font color=DARKRED> <b> SUPPORTED HARDWARE PLATFORMS </b> </font> <br> Desktop PC, laptop, notebook, Unix workstation equipped with a color monitor with a color depth of at least 8 bits per pixel. Garlic may also be used on Apple MacIntosh running <a href="http://www.tenon.com/products/xtools"> Xtools from Tenon </a> . Click <a href="../install/macosx.html"> here </a> for instructions if you have such system. No dials are required. Some X servers do not support TrueColor visual at 8 bits per pixel: try to switch to higher color depth (12, 15, 24, ...)! If you have the SGI Octane workstation, you might be interested to read <a href="../install/octane.html"> this </a> text. If you have IBM RS6000 with AIX, read <a href="../install/rs6000.html"> this </a> hint. <br><br> <font color=DARKRED> <b> CPU </b> </font> <br> Intel, Digital Alpha, HP, SUN MIPS, SGI and some others. This program has no special hardware requirements. <br><br> <font color=DARKRED> <b> GRAPHICS INTERFACE </b> </font> <br> Garlic requires the X window system. The recommended version is X11R6, but older versions may work too. <br> <font color=RED> THE X SERVER SHOULD BE CAPABLE TO SUPPORT THE TrueColor VISUAL! <br> </font> Some older servers may be unable to support the TrueColor visual; if you have such X server, garlic will refuse to work. Some modern X servers do not support the TrueColor visual at 8 bits per pixel, but these are usually running on a hardware which may offer 12 or more bits per pixel. <br><br> <font color=DARKRED> <b> COMPILER </b> </font> <br> GNU C compiler is recommended, but other compilers compliant with ANSI C standard should work too. <br><br> <font color=DARKRED> <b> REQUIRED LIBRARIES </b> </font> <br> The only required libraries are libc (C), libm (mathematical) and libX11 (the standard X11 library). <br><br> <font color=DARKRED> <b> KEYBOARD </b> </font> <br> The standard PC 101/102 keyboard should work fine. The laptop keyboard may be used too. If you have some kind of Unix workstation with terminal keyboard, this may work too. <br><br> <font color=DARKRED> <b> MOUSE </b> </font> <br> Any mouse should serve well. <br><br> <hr size="3"> <font color=DARKRED> <b> THE LIST OF COMPATIBLE SYSTEMS </b> </font> <br> Up to now, it is confirmed that garlic may be compiled and used on these systems: <br> Intel and compatible processors; <br> Digital Alpha; <br> Sun Solaris; <br> SGI (Silicon Graphics); <br> HPUX (Hewlett-Packard); <br> MacOSX (Apple). <br><br> Please inform me ( <a href="mailto:zucic@mefos.hr"> zucic@mefos.hr </a> ) if you successfully compiled and used garlic on a system which is not listed here. <hr size="3"> </html>
