[Xastir] VMWare Player license

[Stephen Brown Jr]

>Wasn't there already somebody on here that wanted to do an Ubuntu
>flavor?

Yes, that was me. Wasn't the original intent of this to get Xastir working
for windows users ala vmware player or did I misinterpret the original
discussion? If that is the end goal, then I think we should focus our
efforts on a lightweight linux distribution that end users can get up and
running quickly with minimal headache.

I would suspect the end user either has no bearing interest in linux or
finds it too complicated, at least that has been my experience trying to get
others that are die hard windows users to use linux. We could still create a
standalone player based on various flavors of linux, but I think a barebones
linux distro with AX.25 and Xastir support would be the best option. I
thought about building a stripped down version of Gentoo with XFCE or
similar window manager running a 2.4 kernel for this very purpose for
myself, but was going to build that standalone and just realized I don't
have the time/talent to produce something like that.

I've always dreamed of seeing a lightweight linux distro with a bunch of ham
radio apps and Xastir/AX.25 working out of the box.

On the vmware subject, It's entirely possible, and I'll throw my name in the
hat and do what I can to make it happen :)

73's
Stephen


On 11/10/06, Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, vic wrote:
>
> > Open Suse 10.0 here also....
> > What desktop manager....  KDE, GNOME, XFCE. etc., etc.....
> > Would want to try and keep the distribution managable, as in not TOO
> big...but we have to think about newbies to Linux as well..
>
> I'm a bad one to ask for Window Managers.  The easy-to-use ones are
> to big and load too slow for my tastes, so I use FVWM2.  I don't
> know if I would wish that on a new user though.  Probably KDE would
> be the easiest for new users and is the default WM for SuSE anyway.
> The downside would be slower startup, requiring a faster computer to
> make it all run nicely, and a bigger download.
>
> Wasn't there already somebody on here that wanted to do an Ubuntu
> flavor?
>
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