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

[Neil Morris]

Thanks Curt and Stephen,

I don't have SuSE 8.1, only 8.0. I think I'll try it with RH7.2 and re-assess 
things if I have problems. As for usage, it'll be on the net occasionally for 
short periods but mostly rf. I could actually put more memory in it but it 
seems to allow a max of 128mb dimms and my spare ones are all 256. I suppose 
there's an easy way to find out... :-)

Thanks again,

Neil
G0TVJ

>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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