[Xastir] wikipedia on xastir...?
Tom Russo
russo at bogodyn.org
Fri Sep 29 12:10:57 EDT 2006
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 10:17:57AM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <bbennett at Spang.com> flavor, containing:
> >Great, except for those that are doing installs away from the
> >internet, or the internet is particularly costly or slow for them,
>
> Hmmm... I don't think it is really feasable to install xastir and maps
> WITHOUT
> a fair internet connection - I have over two gigabytes invested in xastir
> and
> four-surrounding-state maps, not to mention the Internet-scavenger hunt for
> all
> the associated packages.
There are plenty of us saddled with slow dial-up, and xastir is quite feasible
for us --- just takes a good long time to set up for the first time.
I've got about 3GB of maps, and it took quite a while to get 'em.
--
Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
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"And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is
one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh,
oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick
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