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I run openSuse 11.1

I decided to search Chess.com for "linux" on a whim, and managed to scrounge up two groups. Of the two, this one appears to be the most active, but the activity level seems to be new people bumping old threads, and a whole lot of stuff that's been sitting around for months or years. I got to thinking about that, and I realized that kind of mirrors the whole state of chess on Linux. When I got back into chess after taking a few years off, I went digging around to see what was new. Is there anything new? No, not really. Chess on Linux seems to be frozen in time. Even the commercial apps that are available on this platform seem to release their Linux version with an older version of everything than their main Windows/OS-X flagship. Fortunately, sites like Chess.com make most of this irrelevant anyway. The Linux chess tools are pretty miserable, so don't use them, and hang out here instead.

Can you guys play against the computer on chess.com? Looks like my jre is not working here. I'm running Linux Mint Isadora XFCE4. Is there a workaround for this?

Hello linux users, I opened this forum to post suggestions about distro´s for a new member who is looking to a distribution and become a linux user (GoodGuy), if anybody have some to tell feel free. GoodGuy, I used used mint and ubuntu 9.1, now I´m trying 10.04 but when I use compiz effects I have some problems. I don´t remember 8.1, but if I would suggest I guess 9.1 showed me more stable than 10.04. Take a look in this forum too: http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/which-distrobution-you-guys-running

Just curious

For me, Linux is a substantial part of that expression. I typically roll with a rooted Droid X, a swiss army-knife, my Grizzly straight, and my car keys. I fancy myself as being paper-free, and that I use Linux exclusively. SO, how do you express your geek chic?

I would like to invite you to the sequel of a sequel, a no holds barred tournament. You can bring out whatever you can find to help you in this tournament, be it chess engines, grandmaster friends, entire chess schools, psychic powers ... anything! Fritz Friendly! - III

System > Prefrences > Mouse > Enable mouse clicks with touchpad. UNCHECK! Stupid touchpad.

recently i installed an ubuntu server, but it doesn't supported GUI, one of my friends suggested to Use this code to install xfc GUI, 'sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop' but as i typed this codes i understood that i have some more problems in my installation, the ubuntu respose was: "w: failed to fetch http://ir.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu......gz something wicked happened resolving 'my proxy and port number' (-5- no address associated with host name)" ubuntu reapeated such massages several times and then it displayed: "E: some index files failed to download, they have been ignored or old ones used instead" can anyone help me with this?

I have it, but I still new to Linux and Ubuntu. But for those who have it, what do you think about it? The only thing I want to say about it is faster booting ROCKS!

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Homepage: http://www.ubuntu.com/ Info: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/lucid/beta1

I would like to invite you to a new, no holds barred tournament. You can bring out whatever you can find to help you in this tournament, be it chess engines, grandmaster friends, entire chess schools... anything! Fritz Friendly! - II

So, anyone tried it? I'm using it right now, and man, it rocks! Almost everything else worked out of the box, and even what didn't I could fix almost immediately with a few commands or clicks! How was your experience?

Hi, what are the best chess engines for linux please provode any information you have :)