Author: Aloisio Ponti Lopes
Date: 21:55:13 03/27/04
My Dual Athlon MP 2600+ (2.133 GHz) is running Kurumin Linux (a brazilian modified version of Knoppix). It is a pleasure to use Linux when it comes to stability and particularly, Internet browsing is much quicker, and much of the trouble about e-mail viruses do not affect Linux users. I can use office software, Mozilla, Opera, KMail, listen to music and see video/DVD as I did with Windows, but there are at least by now _no_memory_issues and absolutely _no_crashes_ at all! It took me 2 days to discover how to configure my new ADSL modem under Linux correctly, but now it's running ok...(posted in a forum and phoned to the modem manufacturer). I installed Jose database and playing program (engine= Crafty), nice look, but did not play much with it to have a complete idea about this interface. Tried to install SCID but I'm having some trouble installing tk first (didn't have trouble installing tcl), so I need some help on this topic... Is Arena available for Linux ? When will Tiger for Linux be available ? Can I run Chessbase/ChessAssistant products under Wine or is there another way to do that ? There still remains a space inside my HD for Windows 98Se (I like Rebel DOS :-)) and I keep another HD with Windows 2003, but I must say I'm impressed with Linux development in the last years... 5 years ago it was a kind of a "geek" system without good graphical interface... now it is very stable and user friendly. I remember when going from DOS to Windows 3.11 that I had to learn many things, and now it isn't different... A. Ponti
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