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

[Richard, N6NKO]

Steve,

The P150 will be tight. With 80 MB of RAM, you will definitely need swap 
space. On my T42 with KDE running, I have about 112 MB taken up by 
applications. I also have 1 GB of RAM installed plus 1 GB swap installed.

Running graphical may be difficult at best with what you have unless you 
get a larger hard drive. If you can scrounge up a 20 GB drive, you can 
partition it to boot up with a small partition to keep the BIOS happy 
and bring in the others when the system boots up when Linux takes over.

Good Luck!!!

Richard, N6NKO


VK7XOR wrote:
> Talking about new installs.
> I have been looking at Xastir to use for aprs work. I plan to have Fedora
> Core 5 on a PIII  1Ghz system which will be the all purpose server on my
> network, plus a P150 laptop with 80Mb RAM & a 2gb HDD to run a version of
> Linux to do the viewing/monitoring of aprs on.
> Does anyone have a suggestion on which distro would suit the laptop?
>
> -Steve VK7XOR
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Huston" <huston at srhuston.net>
> To: <xastir at xastir.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 2:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] New, Updated box time - which Linux??
>
>
>   
>> On 9/20/06 12:39 AM, Curt Mills wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Tom Russo wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Sed is for wimps.
>>>> Real Programmers use "cat" as their editor.
>>>>         
>>> Call me a real programmer then...   I've done that on occasion!
>>>       
>> Jeez, what's that make me.. I don't know how many times I've not
>> bothered to write a shell script to a file, but just strung the commands
>> together on the commandline ( for H in `ldapsearch -x -b "ou=Hosts"
>> '(cn=*)' dn -LLL | grep -v '^$' | sed 's/^dn: cn=\(.*\),ou=Host.*/\1/'`
>> ; do ssh $H uptime ; done )
>>
>> And yes, scarily enough, I did that from memory.  Just shortened the
>> base for the ldap query...
>>
>> -- 
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