Author: Harald Faber
Date: 21:29:48 10/22/03
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On October 22, 2003 at 23:33:52, Christophe Theron wrote: >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 I cannot see the sense in using Linux when you run a windows emulator and use (original) windows programs. IMO it would make sense if there were only few windows programs you use, but when it is more than 50% original Windows software you use, the Linux usage indeed makes - for me - no sense.
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