Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 09:24:31 05/30/02
My hard drive broke down causing me lots of problems. The only good thing about this is that I installed a new HD and I got courage to install also Linux. So, I'd like to have Windows and Linux. I would do the serious stuff with windows and I will use Linux to experiment with it and for computer chess programming. I developed my program Gaviota portably, so it can compile in both MSVC and Cygwin, so to have it compiled with GCC should be a piece of cake. In that way, I can release a version of my program for Linux! So, the question is: What kind of Linux distribution would you recommend taking into account that it would be mainly for computer chess and experimentation? That is, xboard, xboard compatible engines, GCC, programming tools etc. The cheapest one I can find? If in the future I decide to build a dual, would it support SMP? I heard that Bob Hyatt had problems with Red Hat. Should I download Linux instead? (I have access at work to a T1 connection and a CD burner) or it is too much trouble? $40 for a linux distribution might be fine. How to do it dual boot? Is that easy to do? Is that supposed to come in the distribution I buy? Is something safe? I partitioned my HD 20MB + 20 MB already with the application that came with the HD (Maxtor 40 MB, I have no idea whether it is good or it sucks but I did not want to wait to do research). The good thing is that I can experiment now since my HD is empty (with Windows 98, which came with the machine, I know people do not like it but I'll try not to buy another version and it worked "reasonably" well for me). Sorry about my ignorance, you can really reduce it :-) If you help me, I will pay with a new Linux engine to download. Miguel
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