Author: Alejandro Dubrovsky
Date: 10:48:43 05/30/02
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On May 30, 2002 at 13:05:58, Jon Dart wrote: >On May 30, 2002 at 12:24:31, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: > > >>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. > >Red Hat's compiler is a little different than what the other distros are >shipping, but I didn't have trouble with it. My suggestion is, whatever distro you get, just get the sources to the latest gcc (gcc-3.1.0) and compile your own. it's easy and faster than waiting for the distros to catch up. Alejandro
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