Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 20:33:52 10/22/03
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On October 22, 2003 at 16:47:22, Uri Blass wrote:
>On October 22, 2003 at 16:28:33, Matthew Hull wrote:
>
>>On October 22, 2003 at 14:16:15, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>>
>>>...because then I have some assurance I will get some even strongers engines in
>>>the future. Why should this guy keep giving us gold for nothing?
>>>We are talking, probably, of around 30 bucks. Not the big deal. Sure the guys
>>>crying here expend lot more sipping beer just one saturday night.
>>>Fernando
>>
>>I personally cannot see that $30 will get you better answers, or better games
>>than fine engines like crafty, especially considering that nobody around here is
>>a even an IM.
>
>Totally irrelevant.
>
>By the same logic you can say that you do not see a reason to buy faster cars
>when nobody here has chances to run even only faster than the old cars.
>
>>
>>It's a bit like paying $200 bucks for Windows when Linux can be had for $5.
>
>Linux does not give the same things.
>
>People complain that they cannot run most of the chess software on Linux and
>chess software is not the only problem.
>
>Maybe if some good programmer can write a program that translate every source
>code for programs that run under windows to equivalent source code that run
>under linux things may be different.
There is no need for this.
I can run the commercial Windows version of Chess Tiger on my Linux notebook,
together with 99% of Windows software.
There are several products that allow you to do that:
* Win4lin (the one I am using)
* VMWare
* Wine (free)
* Xen (free; not ready at this time, but promising)
These products are good enough for me, until I get rid of all Windows software
(almost done).
The next step is to write code that is portable between Windows and Linux, and
I'm working on this also for the softwares I have developped. It is not that
difficult and testing your code under two different OSes will make it rock
solid.
Christophe
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