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		Linux, a Unix compatible operating system written by Linus Torvalds [1] 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.
The Linuxhotel [2]

Chess GUIs

• 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"

• 1. AdaChess
  2. AICE
  3. Alice
  4. Amundsen
  5. Amy
  6. Arasan
  7. BBChess (SI)
  8. Belofte
  9. Beowulf
  10. Betsabe
  11. Blikskottel
  12. Brainless
  13. Butcher
  14. Buzz
  15. Cassandre
  16. Cheese
  17. Chenard
  18. Chesley
  19. Chess for Android
  20. chess4j
  21. Clarabit
  22. Crafty
  23. CrazyWa
  24. Cupcake
  25. DanaSah
  26. Deep Blue
  27. DeepBrutePos
  28. Djinn
  29. Dorpsgek
  30. Dragon FR
  31. Dreamer
  32. E.T.Chess
  33. Enigma
  34. Exacto
  35. EXchess
  36. Faile
  37. Fairy-Max
  38. Fizbo
  39. Fortress (Engine)
  40. Frenzee
  41. Gaia
  42. Galjoen
  43. Gaviota
  44. Genesis IL
  45. Ghost
  46. GiuChess
  47. Gk
  48. GNU Chess
  49. Gothmog
  50. Gullydeckel
  51. Hermann
  52. Hossa
  53. Jabba
  54. Jazz
  55. Jellyfish
  56. JikChess
  57. Joker IT
  58. KingSlayer
  59. KnightX
  60. Kurt
  61. Little Wing
  62. Marvin
  63. MatMoi
  64. MSCP
  65. Murka
  66. Natwarlal
  67. Nemorino
  68. NG-play
  69. NoonianChess
  70. Obender
  71. Octochess
  72. OliThink
  73. Parrot
  74. Patzer
  75. Phalanx
  76. Plisk
  77. PostModernist
  78. Prophet
  79. Pulsar
  80. Purple Haze
  81. RattateChess
  82. Rookie
  83. Ruffian
  84. Scidlet
  85. Scorpio
  86. Searcher
  87. Sjaak (Glebbeek)
  88. Sjeng
  89. Sloppy
  90. Small Potato
  91. Sunsetter
  92. The Crazy Bishop
  93. Typhoon
  94. Vice
  95. Warrior
  96. Woodpecker
  97. WyldChess
  98. Xadreco
  99. Xpdnt
  100. Yace

Linux compatible Engines

Linux compatible UCI Engines supporting the UCI protocol with the tag "linuxengines"

• 1. Arasan
  2. Atlas (ESP)
  3. Belofte
  4. BikJump
  5. Cassandre
  6. Cheese
  7. Cheng
  8. Cinnamon
  9. Critter
  10. CT800
  11. DayDreamer
  12. Demolito
  13. DiscoCheck
  14. Embla
  15. Fruit
  16. Fruit Reloaded
  17. Gaia
  18. Gaviota
  19. Glaurung
  20. GullChess
  21. Hakkapeliitta
  22. Ifrit
  23. Ippolit
  24. Jabba
  25. Jellyfish
  26. JFresh
  27. Kholin
  28. Komodo
  29. Marvin
  30. Matheus
  31. Maverick
  32. MinkoChess
  33. Pawny
  34. Pedone
  35. Plisk
  36. Protector
  37. RedQueen
  38. Robocide
  39. Rocinante
  40. Rodent
  41. Ruffian
  42. RuyDos
  43. Senpai
  44. Shredder
  45. Simplex
  46. Sloppy
  47. Spark
  48. Spike
  49. Stockfish
  50. Superpawn
  51. Teki
  52. Texel
  53. Tunguska
  54. Winter
  55. WyldChess
  56. Xiphos
  57. Zappa

User Interfaces

• X Window System from Wikipedia
• KDE from Wikipedia
• GNOME from Wikipedia
• Xfce from Wikipedia

Development

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

• Emacs from Wikipedia
• Eclipse from Wikipedia
  Eclipse.org home

C/C++

Libs

• C standard library
• GNU C Library from Wikipedia
  GNU C Library - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
• 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

• GNU Compiler Collection from Wikipedia
  GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection
• Intel C++ Compiler
  Intel® Compilers

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 ^[3] :

The document contains details about data representation, function calling conventions, register usage conventions, name mangling schemes, etc. for many different C++ compilers and operating systems. Discusses compatibilities and incompatibilities between different C++ compilers. Includes information that is not covered by the official Application Binary Interface standards (ABI's). The information provided here is based on my own research and therefore descriptive rather than normative. Intended as a source of reference for programmers who want to make function libraries compatible with multiple compilers or operating systems and for makers of compilers and other development tools who want their tools to be compatible with existing tools.

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

• Linux distribution from Wikipedia
• Debian from Wikipedia
  Knoppix from Wikipedia
  Ubuntu 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)

References

1. ^ Linus' blog
2. ^ Villa Vogelsang at the banks of river Ruhr, Essen Horst, Germany, domiciling the Linuxhotel GmbH, offering not only accommodation, but courses around Linux, applications, development, open-source, operating system, and web topics - part of The Industrial Heritage Trail of the Ruhr area. Photo by Gerd Isenberg, June 23, 2015
3. ^ Calling conventions for different C++ compilers and operating systems (pdf) by Agner Fog

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