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

[Stephen West-Fisher]

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. 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Opinions/advice/arguments will be gratefully received :-)

It's running on a Pentium 90 with 32 meg RAM here just fine. Debian 3.0 
Woodie, but the KDE desktop, Gnome was too much for the machine :-)


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