Author: pavel
Date: 10:04:33 05/30/02
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On May 30, 2002 at 12:24:31, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >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 Some things I know about linux, and trying to answer your questions in no perticular order. :) == RedHat, Mandrake, & SuSe Linux distros are the 3 good ones that comes to my mind, I have used all three of them more or less, but used SuSe the most. == IMO its better to pay for a well known distro then to download. == Dont know about SMP compatible, I dont have a SMP system up to now. == IMO most Linux distro comes with xboard (I think so), and they also comes with the latest GCC compiler == DualBoot option comes with the linux distro installation, AFAIK it comes with RedHat and SuSe (Lilo?), you also have an option to boot from a floppy. == you said "I partitioned my HD 20MB + 20 MB already with the application that came with the HD (Maxtor 40 MB, I have no idea". I am sure you mean "GB" but not "MB". IMO for full installation 10GB is more than good enough, assuming that you will be using it mainly for programing. The full installation for SuSe takes around 2-3 GB including xwindows(not sure exactly how much). Before installing Linux distro on the other pertition, i personally would sugget to install win2k on your windows pertition. This is because Win98 is a crap OS and can cause some problem. ***This are non-expert opinions**** :) have fun. pavs
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