Author: Roy Brunjes
Date: 11:10:01 02/13/06
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On February 13, 2006 at 11:47:12, Roy Brunjes wrote: >On February 13, 2006 at 10:18:28, Ted Summers wrote: > >>What chess programs run under crossover office for linux or even wine? I am >>using Ubuntu Linux and my chess software is the only thing needed for a complete >>switch. I currently have windows versions of Chessbase, Fritz, ShredderUCI, >>Rybka, Fruit, and Arena. I don't want to use VMWare if I don't have to. >> >>Thanks > >I do not use CrossOver Office however I do use the free version of Wine on >Fedora Core 4. I run Rybka and Arena just fine. Some arena operations (like >resizing of the board) are painfully slow (perhaps 30 secs to do this) but the >engine runs at 97% of normal speed. I find it fully usable as I do not resize >the board very often (in fact, after the initial resizing, I have not had to do >that since). > >I run Fruit native on Linux though I suppose I could also use Arena and Wine >there also. > >Roy Almost always a sad thing is to respond to your own posts, but I have just discovered that my info is dated. The board resizing now happens in roughly 4 seconds with the newest Wine (wine-0.9.7-3.fc4) so even that complaint is now gone. And the modest slowdown in the engine makes almost no difference in playing strength. My advice: Try CrossOver since you own it. Everything I have heard about it is that it is Wine only better (more optimized and with improved Windoze support). Roy
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