[Xastir] System power needed

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On 28 Mar 2003, Gerry Wheeler wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 12:43, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> > I have a 486/25 with 20M memory that has run Xastir before.  I think
> > it has Redhat 4.? on it.  Haven't tried it lately though.
>
> I have several similar computers (laptops). I'm thinking of putting RH
> 6.2 on them for portable use. How hard is it to get a version of Xastir
> compiled for that?

Not sure anymore.  On the most recent laptop I set up to run Xastir,
where I could only carve out about 300 or 400MB for the Linux
partition, I installed Slackware (starting with ZipSlack and then
adding some X packages in).  It was pretty easy to get going that
way.

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