Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 09:26:18 10/10/99
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Robert: Thank you very much for your detailed info. Yes, I already have thought of double booting. I think I will coexist with both for a time to see and then, in time, one of them, probable W, will be trashed. Cheers Fernando On October 09, 1999 at 16:41:10, Robert Pawlak wrote: >On October 09, 1999 at 14:27:54, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Hi R: >>Can you tell us a little more about Linux stuff? The vesion you use? How good it >>is with any kind of programs, chess included? How many original windows programs >>can run there? I am fed up with Windows since long time ago and in he very >>fringe to jump to another os, provided I can make good use of the huge lbrary of >>software I already have. >>Cheers >>Fernando >On October 09, 1999 at 14:27:54, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Hi R: >>Can you tell us a little more about Linux stuff? The vesion you use? How good it >>is with any kind of programs, chess included? How many original windows programs >>can run there? I am fed up with Windows since long time ago and in he very >>fringe to jump to another os, provided I can make good use of the huge lbrary of >>software I already have. >>Cheers >>Fernando > >I tried several distributions. The best I found as far as stability/easeof use >was redhat 6.0. Although Caldera is probably the easiest to install. You can >start a holy war on any of the linux NGs by asking the "what's best?" question. > >Software is limited, and if you have never used UNIX, or Linux before, then it >is probably not a good idea. Setting everything up can be time consuming, but >when you are done, the system is extremely solid. It's possible to crash the >windowing system for example, but you can just restart it, and keep on working. >Unlike win9X, you do not have to reboot your machine 5X a day. > >As far as ICS play goes, you pretty much have Xboard, and that's it. Same goes >for playing programs - if there is a linux version, and it runs under Xboard, >then you're fine. > >As far as chess databases go, there is SCID, which I have not gotten to compile >properly yet. there is a rumor that Peter Klausler might do a version of CDB for >linux, but it is unsubstantiated. > >As far as other apps go, the free office suite called StarOffice is quite good. >If reads MSOffice files pretty well, and has a decent feature set. The program I >use most under Linux is Matlab, and it runs very well. > >Now the above comments apply to Linux native SW. As far as running windows SW >under linux goes, you have the following alternatives: > >1. dosemu - difficult setup, not too stable >2. wine - relatively easy setup, horribly unstable >3. vmware - easy setup, good stability, good compatibility > >Realize that dosemu and wine are still alpha (or so I believe). Vmware is >amazing. I have not tried every windows program on it, but so far it has worked >with everything I've tried (mostly business/scientific apps). Even virtual CDROm >software works under it. However, you will take a definite performance hit under >linux (you are esentially running two OS's when you start vmware), but you can >adjust the priority of the virtual machine. > >So the bottom line is that you need to buy vmware ($100), and it will probably >run all your existing DOS/Win chess SW. However, you will take a performance hit >in doing so. So for analysis, use a native linux prog, or boot into native >Win/DOS > >In case you were unaware, you can set up a dual-boot system, so you get your >choice of OS when you start up. > >Personally, I love linux. It is a bit rough around the edges, but has huge >potential. > >Bob P.
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