Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 02:31:26 10/23/03
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On October 22, 2003 at 23:33:52, Christophe Theron wrote: > >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 In a programming course (several years ago) we had to write the final project for two different plattforms (in my case an old HP9000 and a PC under FreeBSD), and the source code had to be identical, no changes allowed. I agree that it is not really difficult, only some discipline is needed. José.
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