Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 13:34:14 12/18/00
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On December 18, 2000 at 14:39:01, Paul Doire wrote: Diep-winboard doesn't run under wine. I have no idea why. i dont' need to mention that it dual doesn't run anyway under wine. >I'm interested in the stability of the Linux O/S. >Mandrake appears to be the most user friendly and to be optimized for Intel >processors. never heart of mandrake. Only have Redhat here. >Wine and VMWare apparently allow the use of Windows programs, while running >the Linux O/S. >This seems to be the best of both worlds,the rock-like stability of Linux >and the flexibility of Windows applications. i have no idea where i would need linux when talking about my own computers, i only know some computers which are not mine run linux, and only because i want to run on them i compile now and then diep for linux. >I know that Wine and VMWare are not perfectly compatible with all Win Apps, >but I understand the developers are eager to help with all issues. 'not all' Not even for console applications. >Does anyone have any experience,anr or feedback about this??? >Does Linux allow approx. 30% increase in performance over Windows 98SE, Wrong. Gcc is at PII processor about 8.5% slower for DIEP at PIII-cumine processors gcc is 10.8% slower SO LINUX IS 10.8% slower for me. Not to mention that my interface only works for windows. >as I've seen at some sites???? God knows who made those sites. Probably m$ haters. But they sure don't run chessprograms except perhaps their own, as all programs i have run for windows. If gcc would *ever* get faster for my program as msvc then i would consider making a GUI for linux too as i run my program under the fastest system. Right now that's windows because of the msvc compiler. Let's not call it superb, its optimizations hardly have improved and it still generates only 486 code. Yet the so called 'ia-32' core of gcc still can't beat it for some weird reasons. Heart some rumours that gcc isn't very efficiently using the registers. Dunno. Can be. I only know that the newer the processor the slower it gets compared to the 486-m$ compiler. >Thanks in advance, >Paul
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