Author: Tom Likens
Date: 13:50:03 06/15/02
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On June 15, 2002 at 12:11:19, Russell Reagan wrote: >I'd like to find out a little bit of info about the users of CCC. So if you >could answer the following questions (and provide any additional info you feel >might be of interest), I'd apprecate it. > >Which OS do you use as your primary OS? Any reason why? Linux exclusively at home. I use win4lin to run fritz and hiarcs 8.0. I love unix. I like the power that unix utilities like grep, awk, sed, perl, python, expect etc. etc. provide the user. At work I run Solaris (another flavor of unix). Everything works seamlessly. It's not that I hate any other OS, I just need to get things done quickly and efficiently. If an alien from planet X showed up tomorrow with an operating system provably better then I would probably switch. Until then, I'm sticking with Linux/Unix. Oh, by the way, I run KDE at home and my wife and 13-year old daughter have no problems with it all (obviously, I perform the system admin stuff, but they love the stability and speed). In fact, it was my wife who pushed me into running Linux on *all* of our computers. She became jealous of the fact that my web browser never crashed ;) >Which OS do you use for computer chess related stuff? Why? Again, Linux. I run a number of test suites and test games. The results are post-processed using perl. I graph the data using gnuplot, etc. etc. >Do you make use of more than one OS? If so, which OS's and for what purposes? Right now, only Linux/Solaris (unless you count the copy of Windows 98 I run under Win4lin- which by the way, runs as fast or faster than running a native copy of Windows 98 on the same machine. It's also much more stable. Actually, Windows isn't that bad if you run it under Linux :) >I'll start off by answering these questions for myself. I use Windows 2000 Pro >as my primary OS, mostly because I play online multiplayer games that only have >Windows support. For chess related stuff I also use Windows. I also use Mandrake >Linux at home and Solaris 8 at school, but I usually only use those for school >related things or for web stuff or scripting. > >Russell
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