Anyone tried Ubuntu yet? <br><br>That is my distro of choice, and I've been running it for almost 2 years without any issues. Xastir is located in the repositories, and there is excellent how-to instructions for building it from source in the Xastir wiki.
<br><br><a href="http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:Ubuntu_6.10">http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:Ubuntu_6.10</a><br><br>Ubuntu is an all around great distribution on top of that. <br><br>73's<br>Stephen
<br>K1LNX<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Wes Johnston, AI4PX</b> <<a href="mailto:wes@ai4px.com">wes@ai4px.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Anyone know how to get xastir going on puppy linux?</div><span class="sg">
<div> </div>
<div>Wes<br><br> </div></span><div><span class="e" id="q_114810d1eaf489b1_2">
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Greg D.</b> <<a href="mailto:ko6th_greg@hotmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ko6th_greg@hotmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hmmpf... Surprised to see so many posts with xastir problems. It came<br>right up for me on SuSE
10.0. I'm running version
1.8.4. What did I do<br>right?<br><br>Greg.<br><br><br>----Original Message Follows----<br>From: "Dave Baxter" <<a href="mailto:dave@emv.co.uk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
dave@emv.co.uk</a>><br>Reply-To: TAPR APRS Mailing List <
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aprssig@lists.tapr.org</a>><br>Subject: RE: [aprssig] KNOPPIX and XASTIR
<br>Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:40:10 +0100<br><br>I have a Mandrake 9.something PC here. Like you, I find it very frustrating<br>to use. The only thing useful I've done with it, is use it for running an<br>EchoLink Proxy. And even that has to be loaded manually each time.
<br>Something strange about Java app's, you can't "launch" them at start-up<br>automatically. OK, so the usual "Office" type stuff runs OK, as does web<br>browsing and email etc.<br><br>Updates? Forget it, none available unless you scrub it, and install a
<br>"clean" copy of Mandriva or some other version of Linux. (I can't be<br>bothered personally with all that again)<br><br>Knoppix. Have that (Harve's hamshack hack) It's very fussy about screen
<br>
hardware I find. And takes an age to boot, even on a multi GHZ machine with<br>100's of MB of ram..<br><br>Xastir on Knoppix, I did get it to load once, but when I tried customising<br>it (My callsign etc) it kept crashing. Virtually no maps for anything
<br>outside the US available in a usable form either. (No flame wars please,<br>try it, they don't work!)<br><br>About the best "Live" Linux CD I've found, is the "Puppy" versions. Fast,<br>
stable, and updatable. Google for "Puppy Linux". But... Little Ham
<br>software available for that version the last time I looked (3 months ago)<br>Again, all the usual stuff works fine, it even found a way past our company<br>proxy/firewall all by itself. Even Windows can't do that without help!...
<br><br>Cheers..<br><br>Dave G0WBX<br><br><br>________________________________<br><br>From: Jason Rausch [mailto:<a href="mailto:jason@ke4nyv.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jason@ke4nyv.com
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<br>Subject: Re: [aprssig] KNOPPIX and XASTIR<br><br><br><br>Not to steal this thread, but does anyone have some<br>tips for installing XASTIR on Mandrake 8.1? Better<br>yet, is there some way to "live update" Mandrake to a
<br>Mandriva kernel and then install from there? I have<br>attempted an "apt-get" with no luck. It actually<br>tells me that it doesn't recognize apt-get as a valid<br>command.<br><br>I am in NO WAY handy with Linux. I just recently
<br>dusted off this copy of 8.1 and installed it on a<br>spare machine. I went ahead and installed every<br>package available on the CD, hoping that I might<br>actually be able to do somthing with it. It seems<br>like everytime I try to play with Linux, a couple of
<br>days later I want to throw the computer through the<br>wall. So, I give up and go play with somthing else.<br><br>Jason KE4NYV<br>RPC Electronics<br><a href="http://www.rpc-electronics.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
www.rpc-electronics.com</a>
<br><br><br>--- "Wes Johnston, AI4PX" <<a href="mailto:wes@ai4px.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">wes@ai4px.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> look for harv's hamshack hack...
<br>><br>> <a href="http://hamshack-hack.sourceforge.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://hamshack-hack.sourceforge.net</a><br>><br>> I did recompile it a year ago to include street maps<br>> of south carolina for<br>> use at our local NWS office.<br>><br>> Wes<br>><br>><br>> On 8/17/07, Andrew Rich <
<a href="mailto:vk4tec@people.net.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">vk4tec@people.net.au</a>><br>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> > Anyone made .ISO for using XASTIR off a boot disk
<br>> ?<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
<br>> > Andrew Rich VK4TEC<br>> > <a href="mailto:vk4tec@people.net.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">vk4tec@people.net.au</a><br>> > <a href="http://www.tech-software.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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