[Xastir] Some advice on a dedicated Xastir box please?

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Neil Morris wrote:

> I've been away from Xastir for a while (though reading the list avidly).
> Although I have a meaty machine I could put it on I'm looking at an older
> computer which might make a good home for it, a PII 300 mHz with 64mb pc100.
> It's only going to run Xastir and maybe a couple of other ham apps - is it up
> to the job? I'm thinking it is, as long as 64mb is enough - and I plan to
> stick with WindowMaker or Blackbox or some other minimal window manager.

That's plenty, particularly if you're going to be on RF feeds only.
If you're on world-wide feeds, get 20,000+ stations, and leave
Xastir up for a while, it can grow to 50MB memory image or more.
With RF-only or taking it up/down, you won't have any problem with
64MB.


> I have a choice of RedHat 7.2 or SuSE 8.0 to put on it. Which will involve
> the least messing about to get the current cvs version working? I have a
> slight preference for RedHat but I'm comfortable with both.

I'd install SuSE 8.1 instead if I were you.  But I'm not you.
Either of those listed should probably work.

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