We can develop our OpenCV applications on a desktop, a notebook, or even the humble Raspberry Pi (covered later, in the Setting up a Raspberry Pi section). Most of our apps have a memory footprint of less than 128 MB, so they can still run (albeit slowly) on old or low-powered machines. To save time, develop on your fastest machine first and test on slower machines later.
This book assumes that you have one of the following operating systems on your development machine:
- Windows 7 SP 1, or a later version.
- Mac OS 10.7 (Lion), or a later version.
- Debian Jessie, a later version, or a derivative such as the following:
- Raspbian 2015-09-25, or a later version
- Ubuntu 14.04, or a later version
- Linux Mint 17, or a later version
- Fedora 28, a later version, or a derivative such as the following:
- RHEL 8, or a later version
- CentOS 8, or a later version...