Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:59:49 05/01/02
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On May 01, 2002 at 10:10:50, Roy Eassa wrote:
>On April 30, 2002 at 19:21:22, ERIQ wrote:
>
>>As it would seem dos is just dead after looking at the responses to my last post
>>on the subject of is hiarcs 8 going to come w/ dos versions. Know one had any
>>faith it was going to happen. Well ok then what about an engine for Xboard that
>>could run on unixes I find it hard to believe that people would not buy it. and
>>none of these os's are going any where any time soon. Just a thought
>>
>> sign,
>> Eriq
>
>
>Indeed, more and more people are using Linux, and I think your question is a
>good one.
More and more? Probably, yes. Last time I checked the stats of
www.chesstiger.com I had 0.7% visitors using Linux. Now it's 1.4%. That's
progress of a sort...
However I do not want to sound too harsh against Linux. At this time I have it
running on 4 computers at my office. From 486-dx 133MHz to PIII-733MHz.
I am more and more interested in Linux and I am trying it at this time.
Something I still do not understand: even on my fast computers, even with 150Mb
of RAM or more, starting ANY application under KDE2 takes at least 2 seconds.
Even if I just launch a tiny NotePad-like editor. Even if I launch it, close it,
and launch it again immediately. Am I doing something wrong or is it considered
as normal?
Christophe
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