[Xastir] Re: Installing on Ubuntu 6.10

[Amateur Radio WB8NUT]

The challenges with a live CD is that you cannot save your settings. 
Every time you start the Live CD, the PC is dedicated to the Live CD and 
you have to enter the settings all over again. Live CDs usually don't 
work very well with wireless cards either - my experience. Not to 
mention it is slow.

The best issue is creating a VMware Appliance for VMware Player. It's 
easy to install, and does not require a shutdown of Windows to use it.  
If I was technically capable of creating a VMware Appliance, I would do 
it - but I am not - at least at this time.

I have now tested the VMware appliance with a laptop with a 1Ghz 
processor and 512MBs of memory running Windows XP. The VMware Appliance 
was Kubuntu 6.06, that I upgraded to 6.10 and then downloaded Xastir. It 
works very well and is easy to set-up. It allows the user to keep 
Windows running at the same time Xastir is running. The only thing else 
the user needs is AGWPE and that is really easy to install.

The Live CD is a nice way for people to test out Xastir, but it is not a 
long term solution for someone who wants to continue to run Xastir.  
Second, again I would suggest, since we are trying to target an audience 
who is not familiar with linux, it is best to go with Kubunu and not 
Ubuntu - they are really the same except for the desktop and Kubuntu 
will be more intuitive for the new Linux user.

Just my suggestions.

Duffy
www.wb8nut.com

John Ronan wrote:
>
> On 14 Nov 2006, at 15:09, Curt, WE7U wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Tom Russo wrote:
>>
>>> I'll reformat this to leave out the work-in-progress bits and put it 
>>> on the wiki
>>> later today.
>>
>> VERY cool!
>>
>> So...  Next step:  Anyone working on a VMWare install of this or
>> similar?
>>
> How about a Ubuntu LiveCD?  I just tested the one I made last week and 
> it was too big.. so I had to dump something else of the CD and re-make 
> it, believe it or not, it actually worked :)
>
> I'm uploading the new version at the moment its got about 10 minutes 
> or so to go before its there
> http://ireland.aprs2.net/xastir
>
> Bearing in mind I had difficulty before with my first attempt at 6.10, 
> in light of Tom's extra work, I'll try making a boot CD again tomorrow 
> morning (hell, I' might try it fro home if herself is watching TV), 
> build it from Ubuntu 6.10 and CVS.
>
> Would that do for a start?
> de John
> EI7IG
>
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