A 386 or better CPU and at least 8 meg of RAM.

About 6 meg disk space to install and 2-10 meg or more beyond that for working space.

A text editor capable of editing plain ASCII text files.

Graphic file viewer capable of viewing PPM, TGA or PNG formats.

Any recent (1994 onwards) Linux kernel and support for ELF format binaries. POV-Ray for Linux is not in a.out-format. ELF libraries libc.so.5, libm.so.5 and one or both of libX11.so.6 or libvga.so.1.

POVLINUX.TGZ or POVLINUX.TAR.GZ - archive containing an official binary for each SVGALib and X-Windows modes. Also contains sample scenes, standard include files and documentation in plain ASCII text.

Pentium 200 or Pentium II (faster the better) 32 meg or more RAM. SVGA display preferably with VESA interface and high color or true color ability. If you want display, you'll need either SVGALib or X-Windows. (Note: accelerated graphics hardware will not improve performance.)

POVUNI_S.TAR.GZ or POVUNI_S.TGZ - The C source code for POV-Ray for Linux. Contains generic parts and Linux specific parts. It does not include sample scenes, standard include files and documentation so you should also get the executable archive as well. Requires the GNU C compiler and (optionally) the X include files and libraries.