[Xastir] New, Updated box time - which Linux??

[Richard, N6NKO]

Bruce,

This is one of those "Holy Wars" questions. The answers will be 
interesting and worth noting.

As I am in bed nursing a head cold brought on by allergies with a sound 
asleep Mini Schnauzer next to me, I am running an IBM T42 with Slackware 
10. The laptop is connected by ethernet to the whole-house network I put 
in. Only the two bathrooms, kitchen, garage, and the laundry room do not 
have a wire hookup but that will change in the kitchen when the snow 
starts flying. My xastir server in the basement, an old Compaq Armada 
laptop running a PII-266(?) is running the same release of Slackware. 
That unit does partial I-gating and is mostly used for I-gate -> RF 
relay of NWS messages for the Milwaukee and surrounding areas. The 
Compaq has been up and running for 73 days now without a hitch.

My use of xastir is for weather related services. I work as a NCS and 
relay station for our SKYWARN group here in Milwaukee. This also allows 
me to have just one more source of information coming in during an 
event. I run four data feeds here and an associate of mine runs three 
others. No duplication of feeds either.

To install xastir, I replaced OpenMotif with LessTif, had to bring in 
several libraries and compile (yawn) and it works out of the box, so to 
speak.

Good luck with your search.

73 from 807,

Richard, N6NKO


Bennett, Bruce wrote:
> My xastir station is showing it's age - hardware-wise.  Since I'm going to
> build a new computer, I'm wondering if anyone has any strong opinions about
> which flavor of Linux fits xastir best...  I've used Fedora (really full
> RedHat) and Debian for my prior stations.
>
> Bruce Bennett, KB8ROP
> Bruce.E.Bennett at GMAIL.COM
> BBennett at Spang.COM
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