Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:58:59 12/15/00
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On December 15, 2000 at 16:52:17, Peter Skinner wrote: >On December 15, 2000 at 16:44:22, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On December 15, 2000 at 14:59:47, Paul Doire wrote: >> >>>Do you anticipate Tigers utilizing multi-processors,such as in "Deep >>>Fritz,Junior"etc. Apparently,there will be a Deep Shredder coming soon,also. >>>I hope you will be able to compete in this market. >>>Any plans in the near future? >>> >>>Regards, >>>Paul >> >> >>Will never happen. Wasn't there a discussion here a while back where >>_everybody_ maintained that "SMP programs won't _ever_ become popular"?? >> >>:) > >True there was a discussion, and then people thought they wouldn't become >popular. Since then I think the same people are leaning the other way. I also >see more programs being made to run on Linux as well. > >With the release of the terrible Windows ME, and the future looking just as >horrible for Microsoft, I think it would be wise to take this route. > >Even I, the most Con-Linux person, is thinking of switching to Linux. It seems >as that is where the future is heading, as from a statistic from PC World >Magazine states, 52% is current Windows users are tempting fate and switching to >one of the more easily set up versions of Linux, being Mandrake, or RedHat. > >Even currently as I write this, am downloading the ISO images of Mandrake 7.2, >and Red Hat 7. > >Who woulda thunk it? Not I :) Skip redhat 7. use 6.2. Or another distribution. 7.0 has the latest release of XFree86, which has some serious bugs. I'm running it on my notebook, but not anything else, yet...
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