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Subject: Re: Happy to know Ruffian will become commercial, because....

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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