Author: Pete Galati
Date: 12:44:36 08/21/99
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On August 21, 1999 at 15:23:06, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote: >I'm posting again. Would like to have some answers... >----------------------------------------------------- >I heard that AMD-K7 (Athlon) is already in the market at the USA (Cybermax or >Gateway, I don't remember), clocks are 500-550-600-650 MHz, but I don't know if >it works well with Linux (ready-made machines come with Win98...). My choice >would be an AMD-K7 650 MHz with Linux... >The main question, though, was about Chess software. We need a good OS, good >memory management, if available good SMP;yes; but what for if programmers don't >port their programs to another OS? We chess players don't have a choice now! Is >there a good, reliable Chess Database for Linux/Unix ? No! How many chess >programs work with Linux? >I do not agree with the idea of partitioning my hard disk just to let pure trash >live side-by-side with my Unix OS. >Is it really difficult to port those programs (I don't believe that, but I'm not >a programmer), or is it a question of sales/marketing? Well, I can't believe in >that, because many companies are selling Linux programs, just to mention a few: >Oracle, Informix, IBM (really surprising...)... >A. Ponti Related to porting to Linux, does anyone know what language Chessbase programs are coded in? Is it C++? then it might not be too difficult a task for them. I'm sure that it is a matter of marketing, as many people as there may be using Linux, still the vast majority of people use MS because it's more consumer oriented. A company has to be able to take a risk based on posible payback in order to start putting out a Linux version of their software. They'd win allot of friends in the Linux community for being the first company (whoever does it) to start producing Linux Chess software, sounds like very good payback to me, a place in computer history! Pete
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