Re: [gnugo-devel] Go on Linux

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> Hi,
> I really appreciate your effort on your page at
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo.html 
> I was lost, though, as to where to go for what I want, and I thought you
> may be able to help. If not, no big deal. I run Redhat 9 and just wanted
> to play against a computer on my local machine. I was wondering if there
> were any free/open source programs to do that. I'm sure there are, and
> they are probably staring at me on that page, but I was having a hard
> time distinguishing clents from Go engines... and knowing what to pick.
> I know I sound like an idiot, but thanks anyway,
> Ezra 

Naturally the engine we recommend is GNU Go. I would get
gnugo-3.4 or gnugo-3.5.2 and cgoban-1.9.12 or cgoban-1.9.14.

GNU Go is the engine. You can use it without a client but
the client (cgoban) gives you a nice graphical display.
Both GNU Go and Cgoban 1 are free software.

Daniel Bump