Mantis runs on Windows, MacOS, OS/2, Linux, Solaris, the BSDs, and just about anything that supports the required server software.

Mantis has very modest software and hardware requirements. You need a computer to run the server on along with the server software. All of the required software is free for commercial or non-commercial use.

The computer can be a shared public web server or a dedicated co-loc box. It can even run on an office machine. Any Pentium class computer should be adequate for moderate usage. You will need enough diskspace for the database to grow and enough memory to avoid virtual memory thrashing. Several thousand issues will only take up a few MBs of space. This will grow proportionately with attached files.

The minimum version requirements are:

• PHP 5.2.0 and higher
• MySQL database 4.1.1 and higher (MS SQL, DB2, and PostgreSQL are also supported).
• Web server (Apache, IIS, etc.)