Lightning System Requirements
Lightning 1.0 beta1 is compatible with Thunderbird 3.
Windows
Operating Systems
- Windows XP
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
Minimum Hardware
- Pentium 233 MHz (Recommended: Pentium III 500MHz or greater)
- Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP: 786 MB RAM (Recommended: 1GB RAM or greater)
- 10 MB hard drive space
Mac OS X
Operating Systems
Mac OS X 10.4.x and later
Minimum Hardware
- Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 or PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
- 256 MB RAM (Recommended: 512 MB RAM or greater)
- 10 MB hard drive space
Linux
Software Requirements
Please note that Linux distributors may provide packages for your distribution which have different requirements.
- Linux kernel - 2.2.14 or higher with the following libraries or packages:
- glibc 2.3.2 or higher
- XFree86-3.3.6 or higher
- gtk+2.0 or higher
- fontconfig (also known as xft)
- libstdc++5
(Many modern Linux distributions only package libstdc++6, which is incompatible with Lightning. Therefore please install the package "libstdc++5" or "compat-libstdc++" on your system before installing Lightning)
Minimum Hardware
- Intel Pentium II or AMD K6-III+ 233 MHz CPU (Recommended: 500MHz or greater)
- 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater)
- 10 MB hard drive space