# 1.3. Requirements for kpm

- A Linux 2.0 or higher operating system. kpm makes excessive use of Linux's `/proc` filesystem. Unfortunatly this is not portable to other systems, because every UNIX system seems to have it's own way of gathering process information.

- K Desktop Environment Beta2 or better

- Qt 1.31. Because KDE is based on Qt, this is no problem.

- Your Linux kernel must be compiled with `proc` filesystem support. Since many things like top won't even work without that, this is standard for most kernels.