Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 10:30:22 01/20/03
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On January 19, 2003 at 14:13:58, Christophe Theron wrote: >On January 19, 2003 at 00:08:19, ERIQ wrote: > >>On January 18, 2003 at 13:42:50, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>>On January 18, 2003 at 09:52:07, ERIQ wrote: >>> >>>>Is it possible to work out something w/ Felipe Bergo the developer of eboard. >>>>eboard is the best looking interface available to unix IMHO and Mr. Bergo seems >>>>to be a reasonable person. It would seem that both of you have something to >>>>gain. His handle on FICS is "pulga". >>>> >>>>I think that if his interface was uci capable and your engine would work >>>>flawlessly within it, Maybe this would be a great commercial product and perhaps >>>>the start of something (ie. other engine developers might make ports) >>>> >>>>I would most certainly play $100.00 us for it. I payed more than that for a dos >>>>rebel 8,9 and I think the graphics are better in eboard!! infact I like it >>>>better than chesspartners interface it just doesn't have all the features yet >>>>but w/ some help who knows ( hint, hint ). >>>> >>>>I wish you all the success. >>>> >>>> Sign, >>>> Eriq >>> >>> >>> >>>I think we might work out something in the future if he agrees, but it's maybe >>>too early to start something. >>> >>>At this time I'm still learning Linux and try to make it my every day desktop. >>>For example I have just transferred all my "Favorites" URLs from IE6 (Windows) >>>to Mozilla (Linux) and I'm writing this message under Mozilla. >>> >>>When I finish moving to Linux I will start porting Chess Tiger to Linux, which >>>might take some time (not too long I hope because the code has been written to >>>be portable and has already been ported to another platform which was more >>>different of Windows than Linux is). >>> >>>Then Linux will be my main developpement platform, so the Linux version of Chess >>>Tiger will probably be always the most up to date. >>> >>>When this happens I will post an announcement here and if you want we will >>>discuss the interfacing possibilities. >>> >>> >>> >>> Christophe >> >>linux is not bad, I started learning about unix first w/ linux and now have >>moved to freebsd not much different as gnu stuff is gnu stuff. Well anyway I >>know it won't take you long to figure it out, so good luck. > > > >Actually it took me some time to figure some things out, for 2 reasons: > >1) I have started a few months ago with a small distro (small in size: 200Mb) >called Peanut Linux. While Peanut is a great distro, it's not ideal for Linux >newbies like me. It provides a lot of basic functionnalities like a very good >GUI, Internet and email and Office replacement, but I had to add myself some >components (amongst other things programming tools). And when you add components >that have not been made specifically for the distro you are using, sometimes it >does not work perfectly. So you need to know more about Linux than a newbie and >you run into small problems. These problems add up and in the end it gets on >your nerves. I can tell that I have learned a lot by using Peanut (well I was >forced to), but RedHat was much easier to use because all the components I >needed were already there or could be installed very easily. And they were all >working fine with each other (that's what RedHat has been working on for so >long). > >2) I have to know much more about the system than the typical user, because I'm >going to write software for it. So I had to learn things that most users do not >even care to know. > >I think a good distro like RedHat is almost ready for the average desktop user. >It provides all the functions you need for everyday use: superb GUI (much better >looking than Windows, and much more customizable). A replacement for Microsoft >Office: if you know how to use MS Office, then you will feel at home with RedHat >8. You have a replacement for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and a few others. They >look almost exactly the same as the Microsoft ones. Internet tools: you have the >choice between 2 browsers (Mozilla is almost as good as IE6) and 2 email >programs (Kmail, simple and efficient, and Evolution which is an Outlook clone). >Audio and video: RedHat 8 provides an audio media player, but you will have to >download a small plugin to read MP3 files (RedHat wanted to avoid any copyright >issues with MP3 and decided to not include the MP3 plugin in their distro). The >same problem exists for video formats, so if you want to read videos you need to >download XINE and RealPlayer. > >My standard test to answer the question "is Linux ready for the desktop" is to >install it on my mother's computer and see if she can do all the tasks she knows >how to do under Windows without too much trouble. I have not tried this test >yet, but I think Linux RedHat 8 would pass the test. I would just have to be >around so I can answer her questions. > >Configuring Linux is slightly more difficult than configuring Windows, but >anyway this is never done by the average user. It must be done by a qualified >technician (and it has be done at the factory for preinstalled PCs). So Linux >currently just puts a little more pressure on qualified technicians at the time >of install. But it's just at install time. When the system is configured and >running, it is rock solid, which is not the case at all with Windows! > > > > >>linux I think is a better desktop than freebsd but try to still make freebsd >>native binary as their are plenty of nerds that prefer bsd's in general. It >>should not be to hard as it's just a slight change in the makefile for crafty. > > > >I will consider trying to be compatible with FreeBSD, especially because FreeBSD >is the basic layer of MacOS X. > > > > >> I >>will continue to make suggestions for new features in eboard to pulga and >>hopefully by the time you are ready, eboard will be too. > > > >OK. > > > > Christophe I think Mandrake 9.0 is an even better Desktop Linux than RedHat. It also has more point and click tools for setting up a LAN easily (to share an internet connection for example) than I found on RedHat. Also RedHat8.0 IIRC does not have all the multimedia programs that you normally get in a distro becuase of issues with mp3 Remembering Mandrake is French and I am English, you will understand how hard it is for me to say this :-) Frank
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