Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 10:54:21 05/30/02
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On May 30, 2002 at 12:24:31, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: I can advice redhat 7.2 7.3 is beta if i remember well. then upgrade the compiler to gcc 3.1 bootstrap it! you can easily download the ISOs at different sites. linuxiso.org there are so many fast sites faster than redhat.com >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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