Author: Pete Galati
Date: 17:02:15 07/04/99
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On July 04, 1999 at 19:40:00, Zachariah Amela wrote: >On July 04, 1999 at 14:38:13, Pete Galati wrote: > >> >>Many people here will know more about this than I do, but I think that if cost >>is a consideration then getting a distribution of Linux has to be the way to go, >>the distributions cost very little (30-40 $ ?) > >Interesting. Does Linux support most UNIX conventions? > I think they do, and Linux has all sorts of cool tools like Emacs editor and grep and several other little things that are used on many OS's, I often use an Emacs for DOS and it has some great features for C. A couple of good Linux books are Linux in a Nutshell and Running Linux both published by O'Reilly. There's also a Linux Journel. Please don't consider me an expert, it's only something I've looked into. >> >>For an interface you probably want to get Tim Mann's Xboard that can be found >>at: http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/chess.html > >I've heard of this; must be quite good. > It's like Winboard only for Linux, I think that Xboard came first and that Tim addopted it for Win95? >> >>And this place has a few Linux/Xboard programs for download: >>http://www.cent.co.yu/chess/ > >Thank you. > >> >>And allways consider getting a download of Robert Hyatt's Crafty program at: >>ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/ I think maybe you'd have to compile Crafty >>yourself (can someone tell me?) for Linux, but if you get a Linux distribution >>it will come with all of the developement tools included, so your in like flint. > >Oh! Crafty has entered the Linux world too. Splendid. > >> >>Pete > >Thank you Pete.
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