Linux

a Unix compatible [|operating system] written by [|Linus Torvalds] and contributors. It has gained widespread use in most every aspect of computing technology. Linux's support for consumer grade chess engines and GUIs is not great, but is improving. Once, XBoard with GNU Chess was the only program, but now the commercial Shredder, and the free PyChess, Scid vs. PC, Cute Chess and Arena have polished interfaces and are easy to use. The powerful and fast database program, SCID (and it's many derivatives), make Linux a valid choice for chess professionals preparing for tournament matches. || toc =Chess GUIs=
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 * Arena
 * ChessX
 * Cute Chess
 * EBoard
 * glChess
 * GNOME Chess
 * PyChess - Versatile chess program.
 * Scid vs. PC - Polished, user-friendly fork of SCID.
 * Shredder - Polished commercial product, with a 30 day trial.
 * XBoard

=Chess Engines=

XBoard engines
XBoard Engines supporting the XBoard protocol with the tag "[|xboardengines]" > include component="pageList" hideInternal="true" tag="xboardengines" limit="100"

Linux compatible Engines
Linux compatible UCI Engines supporting the UCI protocol with the tag "[|linuxengines]" > include component="pageList" hideInternal="true" tag="linuxengines" limit="100"

=User Interfaces=  =Development=
 * [|X Window System from Wikipedia]
 * [|KDE from Wikipedia]
 * [|GNOME from Wikipedia]
 * [|Xfce from Wikipedia]

OS Internals

 * [|Linux kernel from Wikipedia]
 * [|The Linux Kernel] by [|David A Rusling]
 * [|Linux Activations] by Vincent Danjean
 * [|A NUMA API for Linux] (pdf, April 2015) » NUMA

IDE
> [|Eclipse.org home]
 * [|Emacs from Wikipedia]
 * [|Eclipse from Wikipedia]

Libs
> [|GNU C Library - GNU Project] - Free Software Foundation
 * [|C standard library]
 * [|GNU C Library from Wikipedia]
 * [|Native POSIX Thread Library from Wikipedia]
 * [|Qt (software) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Boost (C++ libraries) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Marcel] a two-level scheduling thread library by Vincent Danjean

Compiler
> [|GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection] > [|Intel® Compilers]
 * [|GNU Compiler Collection from Wikipedia]
 * [|Intel C++ Compiler]

Calling Conventions
[|Agner Fog] describes x86 and x86-64 [|calling conventions] for different C++ compilers and operating systems, covering 32-bit and 64-bit Linux :

Other Languages

 * Java
 * Ruby

=See also=
 * Android
 * Free Chess on the Internet (FICS)
 * Free Software Foundation
 * Huge Tables
 * NUMA
 * Unix
 * Windows
 * x86

=Publications=

1999

 * Vincent Danjean (**1999**). //Extending the Linux kernel with Activations for Better Support of Multithreaded Programs and Integration in PM2//. Master thesis, Magistère d'informatique et modélisation (MIM), [|ENS Lyon], Sep. 1999, [|zipped ps]

2000 ...

 * Vincent Danjean, [|Raymond Namyst], [|Robert Russell] (**2000**). //Integrating Kernel Activations in a Multithreaded Runtime System on Linux//. Proc. 4th Workshop on Runtime Systems for Parallel Programming (RTSPP~'00), [|zipped ps]
 * Vincent Danjean, [|Raymond Namyst], [|Robert Russell] (**2000**). //Linux Kernel Activations to Support Multithreading//. Proc. 18th IASTED International Conference on Applied Informatics, [|zipped ps]
 * [|Peter Jay Salzman], [|Ori Pomerantz] (**2001**). //[|The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide]//.
 * [|Andi Kleen] (**2004**). //An NUMA API for Linux//. SUSE Labs, [|pdf] » NUMA

2010 ...

 * Richard Cochran, [|Cristian Marinescu] (**2010**). //[|Design and Implementation of a PTP Clock Infrastructure for the Linux Kernel]//. IEEE [|International Symposium on Precision Clock Synchronization for Measurement, Control, and Communication]
 * Richard Cochran, [|Cristian Marinescu], [|Christian Riesch] (**2011**). //[|Synchronizing the Linux System Time to a PTP Hardware Clock]//. IEEE [|International Symposium on Precision Clock Synchronization for Measurement, Control, and Communication]

=Forum Posts=

2000 ...

 * [|Linux] by Frank Phillips, CCC, May 12, 2001
 * [|Using 2 machines for matches (Linux)] by Jon Dart, CCC, June 24, 2001 » XBoard
 * [|What is the future for Linux?] by Leonid, CCC, October 03, 2002
 * [|Linux SMP] by Russell Reagan, CCC, August 31, 2003 » SMP
 * [|Porting an engine to Linux] by Josué Forte, Winboard Forum, September 18, 2003
 * [|chess GUI under Linux] by Vasik Rajlich, CCC, March 23, 2004 » GUI

2005 ...

 * [|64-bit development in Linux] by Gregory Strong, CCC, February 08, 2009

2010 ...

 * [|My experience with Linux/GCC] by Richard Vida, CCC, March 23, 2011
 * [|Switching from Ubuntu] by Steven Edwards, CCC, August 15, 2012
 * [|Debian 7] by Steven Edwards, CCC, May 25, 2013
 * [|Shogi in Unix/Linux?] by Joshua Pettus, Winboard Forum, October 19, 2013 » Shogi
 * [|To GUI developers and Linux engine packagers] by H.G.Muller, CCC, September 12, 2014 » GUI

2015 ...

 * [|Test epd for Linux ?] by Jean Arthuin, CCC, March 25, 2016 » EPD, STS, XBoard
 * [|Linux Chess GUI that's good for engine matches/tournaments] by Shawn Chidester, CCC, June 16, 2016 » GUI
 * [|Crashing engines (Linux)] by Harm Geert Muller, CCC, September 18, 2016 » Process, XBoard
 * [|Arena for Linux] by Jesse Gersenson, CCC, November 15, 2016 » Arena
 * [|What Linux compatible Numa aware engines are available?] by Dann Corbit, CCC, March 29, 2017 » NUMA
 * [|For how many of these are there functional Linux versions?] by Dann Corbit, CCC, October 07, 2017
 * [|Engines for testing (Linux, fast time control)] by Jon Dart, CCC, November 18, 2017 » Engine Testing

=Further Links=
 * [|Linux from Wikipedia]
 * [|GNU/Linux naming controversy from Wikipedia]
 * [|Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate from Wikipedia]
 * [|Linux and Chess]

Distribution
> [|Knoppix from Wikipedia] > [|Ubuntu from Wikipedia]
 * [|Linux distribution from Wikipedia]
 * [|Debian from Wikipedia]
 * [|Red Hat from Wikipedia]
 * [|Slackware from Wikipedia]
 * [|SUSE Linux distributions from Wikipedia]

Chess GUIs

 * [|Cute Chess] » Cute Chess
 * [|GLChess]
 * [|Scid vs. PC] » Scid vs. PC
 * [|Shredder Computer Chess Download - Linux] » Shredder
 * [|XBoard - GNU Project] » XBoard

Chess Databases

 * [|Scid vs. PC] Currently without support for the latest Scid database format.
 * [|ChessX] Gorgeous, but feature poor, QT based utility.
 * [|Scidb] Still in development, but promises ChessBase support (read-only)

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