Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 12:56:24 04/18/00
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Hi On April 18, 2000 at 00:21:38, Will Singleton wrote: >On April 17, 2000 at 18:50:18, Daniel Clausen wrote: >>>Ah, linux on the Mac, be interesting if it worked. >> >>Not sure how you mean that. I'm using Linux (1999, and soon 2000) on my >>Mac since 1 year and don't have any problems. > >I knew it was available, I had thought there were problems. >No problems at all? I didn't have any problems. (non-working sound is not a problem for me :) > What do you use it for? I used the LinuxPPC-1999 distrubution to develop my engine. That and email, news and a browser. YMMV. > How difficult is it to port MacOS progs to Linux? As long as you don't mean a GUI, it should be rather trivial. I wouldn't port it to Linux atm though, but give MacOSX a chance. (Just my opinion, I'm not an Apple PR guy :) > How many chess programs currently run under Linux? Not sure now.. but programs like Amy, ColChess, Echelon, OliThink, Pierre, Sjeng and (OxChess ;) shouldn't be a problem. I remember I had problems getting Crafty to run. It compiled almost out of the box, but crashed when I started it. Kind regards, -sargon
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