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Subject: Re: Crafty on Linux with flying colors without bells and whistles

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 06:58:44 03/15/01

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On March 15, 2001 at 02:15:31, Hristo wrote:

Hi Hristo,

>Peter,
>most people would have trouble setting up windows from scratch.

I disagree here - I really think that nearly everybody with a common PC can
install Windows98 so that all the basic things work very well .

>However if you can do that then installing SuSE linux 7.1 (personal)
>should be just as easy and it will cost you about $20. ;-))
>www.suse.com
>I bet some other distros are also very easy to setup.

I think Redhat is even a little easier but I agree installation support has
improved . Although , well ...

Computer with less than 128 MB RAM - no nice graphical installation with SUSE .

Sound :-) ? Easy ? Depends .. ( in fact this question is quite funny ; every
time I talk to a Linux fanatic this question cools them down a lot :-) )

Graphic card ? Easy ? Yes , unless you have a ...


>
>For all new-to-linux, please do your self a favor and buy a distribution!
>SuSE, RedHat, Debian, Slackware, anything ... you'll save lots of time
>and efforts. Latter you-new-to-linux will learn how to download and install
>software packages from the internet and also (if you want) how to
>compile the kernel with optimizations for your own CPU, how to compile
>software packages optimaized ... etc.

Here I definitely agree !


>Meanwhile, just have fun. ;-)
>
>cheers.
>hristo

Don't get me wrong ; half of the day I sit at a Linux PC , I mainly work on Unix
systems anyway . At home I currently sit in front of my Windows 98 PC and am
very happy with it :-) .

I was under the impression that the original poster thought Linux would be a
superior platform for running chessprograms which is definitely untrue .

Cheers.

pete



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