System Requirements
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Supported Systems
Ports of Box Backup are available for the following systems:
- OpenBSD (the primary development platform)
- Linux (including Debian, Red Hat/Fedora, SuSE, Gentoo and Mandriva)
- NetBSD (this has minor issues with dates on symlinks)
- FreeBSD
- Darwin / Mac OS X 10.5
- Cygwin (Windows) (client only)
- Native Windows (client only, not complete)
- Solaris
If you have a supported system then getting Box Backup is as easy as going to the Installation page.
Support for more platforms will arrive over time. It takes in general a couple of hours to get it compiling on a BSD-like UNIX, and a bit longer on something like Linux which deviates from the BSD way of doing things. The software is written in C++ and should be readily portable to other platforms.
Patches for other platforms are welcomed, as are volunteers to look after ports for a particular platform. Programmers notes describing how everything works are included in the notes directory within the distribution archive (or browse it online at source:box/trunk/docs).
Further requirements should be added here; probably best divided into 'compilation' and 'running' sections to serve developers and users separately
