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

[Gerry Creager]

Ooh!  religious war!  Cool.

This laptop is running CentOS 4.5, or, essentially RedHat Enterprise 
Workstation 4.5.  We run CentOS on most of our stuff here at work (and I 
do at home) because it's stable.  Rock solid.  I've not had any troubles 
installing Xastir on it that were not operator-induced.

Personal preference in distro's for years was Slack.  I moved my lab and 
research facility to RedHat years back in favor of a package manager 
(RPM) back when Slack's version of package management was tar and gzip.

I am running OpenMotif.  Lots of problems with LessTif so I just chunked 
it in favor of OpenMotif and never looked back.  OpenMotif now ships 
with CentOS so it's no longer a problem for me at all.

I likely update gdal more frequently than most, and ImageMagick.  I'd 
like to meet the guys in charge of compatibility for ImageMagick, 
someday, socially.  Should be quite a discussion.  I've gotten to where 
I install ImageMagick via tarball rather than rpm, as I've seen some 
problems when none should have existed with their precompiled binaries.

I don't have a Mini Schnauzer sleeping next to me.  I'm stuck at work on 
  the prettiest day we've had in months.

73 gerry

Richard, N6NKO wrote:
> 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
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>> All major advances can be directly attributed to optimistically under 
>> estimating the amount of work required for the task...
>>  
>>
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