[Xastir] System power needed

[Jacob Tennant]

No, it's not a bad time to tell me that as I had been thinking of ttrying
Linux on the laptop anyway. A fellow ham friend of mine is a big Linux user
and had mentioned Debian to me before so I might just give him a call
tonight or this weekend. . .

Jacob Tennant  K8JWT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerry Creager N5JXS" <gerry.creager at tamu.edu>
To: "Jacob Tennant" <k8jwt at ntelos.net>
Cc: <xastir at xastir.org>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 4:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] System power needed


> Is this a good time to tell you that a machine of that class will run
> Xastir better under Linux than Windows, because Linux handles resources
> more efficiently?
>
> ;-)
>
> 73, gerry
>
> Jacob Tennant wrote:
> > I have just started looking into Xastir from WinAPRS. I have a IBM 770
> > laptop with 233MMX proc. 98mbRAM, 4GB HD, with Win98se loaded on it.
> >
> > With using cygwin to make xastir run, do I have enough power to run this
on
> > the laptop?
> >
> > It is my main APRS system for both home and truck.
> >
> > Jacob Tennant  K8JWT
> >
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