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

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, 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?

I've run Xastir on PP200 32MB laptops and a P133 64MB touch-screen
truck-mount box.  Because of the size of your disk I'd recommend you
start with "zipslack", and then add a few X11 pieces to it.  That'll
get you up and running with a Linux system using very little of the
hard drive.  Zipslack used to be available in the Slackware
distribution and was intended to be able to run off a 100MB zip
disk.  Hopefully it's still available in their later distributions.

I've run that version on several machines, but am running SuSE on
the P133 on a 6.4GB disk.  With all the maps I have loaded on there
it's _quite_ full.

As another person said, make sure you've got a bit of swap partition
reserved on that drive as you'll need it.

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