Cool packages: Gnuchess

Do you like to play chess? Do you want to learn to play chess? Are you sick of staring at the #, %, $, or > prompt? Then Gnuchess may be for you. This is Gnu's own version of chess. It is pretty simple, and can have both simple graphics and can be totally text based. I have not used this package much but I have gotten this through pkgsrc with several variations included. I plan to use this to play chess and as a break after I type. Overall, a nice, simple game package.

Spotlight: pkgsrc

The main package distibution system for NetBSD and many other (free) operating systems is pkgsrc. Before it existed, packages were not standardized and much less organized. However, today pkgsrc has standardized and distributed packages for more than 10 operating systems and has more than 5000 packages. It has standardized both binary and source distributions for many operating systems. For more information, go to http://www.netbsd.org where there is more info about pkgsrc.