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Subject: Re: SCID

Author: Steve Coladonato

Date: 04:32:56 10/10/01

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On October 09, 2001 at 14:50:43, Sven Reichard wrote:

>On October 09, 2001 at 13:27:53, Steve Coladonato wrote:
>
>>Sven,
>>
>>Welcome and thanks.  I was feeling pretty lonely out here.
>>
>>I'm running Red Hat 6.1 on a desktop and SuSE 7.2 (dual boot from floppy with
>>Win2000) on a laptop.  Very pleased.
>>
>>I was hoping to see some of the commercial chess programs start ports to Linux
>>but so far no luck.  However, SCID and Crafty do pretty much everything I want.
>>
>>Regards.
>>
>>Steve
>
>Steve,
>
>I run Redhat 7.0 and Win98 on a desktop (k6-2 500, 192 M). Nothing beats gcc,
>although the version included in RH7 is experimental  and kind of buggy. It
>still produces the best code of all free compilers I have tried.
>
>Under Win I use CM8k, and ChessMachine to play on FICS (as usual the internal
>modem doesn't work under Linux).
>
>Viva Tux!
>
>Sven.

I had a winmodem isssue with my Gateway laptop.  But I found a winmodem driver
for the Lucent chipset, installed it, and am now making connections to my
Compuserve ISP.  The alternative is to change out the modem.  But now that I can
get to the internet from linux, I am a really happy camper.

Steve



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