[Xastir] Xastir virtual machine now available for download

[Tom Russo]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 11:50:46AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> Thanks to Jason Winningham, the Xastir virtual machine I made for use in 
> VMware player is now available for download 
> 
> Details are in the Wiki:
> 
> http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:VMware

John Ronan has also provided download bandwidth for the other side of the 
puddle.  This detail, among others, is now on the Wiki.  I've been expanding 
the VMware documentation on the wiki as much as I can in limited time, and I 
think it gives a fairly complete picture of how to get Xastir started on 
Windows under VMware player in a short time.

If you have any interest in running Xastir on windows without Cygwin, please
check it out.  I'm keenly interested in the sorts of glitches that windows
users have when using it -- we already found some and I've tried to document
troubleshooting and work-arounds on the Wiki. 

I converted one former local xastir user from Cygwin to VMware on Thursday.  
He reports that the VMware version is markedly faster on his machines than 
Cygwin ever was, and much less of a pain to use --- map redraws are notably
faster.  Also, by using Xastir under Linux through VMware, he now has access 
to GPS track downloads through GPSMan --- since gpsmanshp won't work under 
Cygwin, this is the first time he's been able to get at that capability.

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