Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 16:29:08 06/16/03
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On June 16, 2003 at 12:11:31, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>On June 16, 2003 at 01:57:37, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On June 15, 2003 at 23:55:07, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote:
>>
>>>... I'm really impressed, yesterday I tried to run Kurumin LINUX (it's based on
>>>KNOPPIX Linux, but translated to portuguese and a little bit modified -some
>>>packages are different), it runs extremely well just using the CD player, no
>>>need to install it to the HD... great !
>>>
>>>What I'm just dreaming is to get a "Chess Assistant" for Linux and a new version
>>>of Tiger for Linux, then I'll throw away of my home that Windowshit...
>>>
>>>A. Ponti
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>>
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>>It will come. I'm using Linux since several months now and I have passed the
>>state of "testing just to see".
>>
>>I have actually replaced Windows on my development computer by Red Hat Linux
>>(now version 9.0).
>>
>>I am working at porting some utilities of mine to Linux. They are written in C
>>and the modules they are using are also the basic bricks of Chess Tiger.
>>
>>When I have ported all my basic modules I will port the chess engine itself, and
>>now I do not expect any major problem.
>>
>>So keep trying Linux, get used to it and learn how it works. It is time well
>>invested.
>>
>>
>>
>> Christophe
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>Great! I must have anticipated your moves and about two weeks ago I installed
>Linux on my "old" PIII-933 (Mandrake 9.1). I have come to a point where
>everything else (except some special chess programs) is running fine. And I
>feel at home with the text console, doing some meaningful stuff. I have compiled
>several chess programs from the sources, did a bit of modifying, etc. I have
>multimedia, wordprocessing, some good dictionaries (a very good Latin - English
>dictionary, among others!), an excellent chess base (Scid) and a dozen chess
>programs, some of which are just very, very good (Crafty, Comet, Deep Sjeng,
>SOS, Yace, Phalanx...). Tiger would simply cap the whole transition to Linux!
>I am delighted to hear that you yourself have been moving over to Linux.
>
>Apart from being "more intelligent" than Windows, Linux is more humanlike and
>much more interactive, demanding things from the user...
>
>Nice news.
>
>
>Djordje
I'm glad to hear that you are moving in the same direction! :)
Linux is simply a real Unix-compatible OS.
Windows has been trying to reach the level of excellence of Unix since 20 years,
without success.
When you think about it:
* subdirectories
* stdin/stdout, pipes redirections
* standard C library
* all storage devices united in a single tree
* long file names
* security and access authentication built in the file system itself
* devices elegantly considered as entries in the file system
* ...and so on
All of this comes from Unix and has been naturally built in Linux right from the
start.
The wanabee Unix (Windows) tries to add these features over the year. Naturally
this create a lot of confusion and incompatibility between versions.
It is obvious that a system designed right from the start to include all these
features is much better organized than a system that tries to add them over
time.
And when you use Linux you can easily feel it. This system has 30 years of
stability behind it, Windows has 20 years of unstability behind it.
Christophe
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