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Subject: Re: Linux for Comp. Chess. Help!

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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