[Xastir] Question regarding Linux OS

[Dave H]

PCLinuxOS is an excellent distro - I'm trying Test Release3 which is the
latest one but
PCLinuxOS 2007 isn't released at time of this writing.. (I looked..just) .
If thats the distro your referring to?

I have been asking in the forums for their authors to include the Ham radio
section in the
repositories, for the new version - nothing heard yet. I don't use Xastir on
my PCLinuxOS
laptop but will give it a try and report back.

Ubuntu is popular and you can easily switch on the ham radio repository and
a few clicks
later have Xastir installed.

There are live distros like AFU Knoppix which are written for hams, but the
versions do tend
to be old I believe AFU Knopix running the version 5 of Knoppix isn't too
far off release.

Dave G0CER
g6vsg on QTel/Echolink


On 23/03/07, Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Mike wrote:
>
> > will or has, Xastir
> > been successfully run on PCLinux 2007?
>
> Never heard of it.  There are a _lot_ of different Linux
> distributions.  If they are fairly standard and have full
> development support, you should be able to get it compiled.
>
> If they are focused more towards _using_ linux instead of
> _developing with_ linux, you may have trouble getting the tools and
> headers installed in order to create a development environment in
> which to compile Xastir.
>
> FWIW:  I use OpenSuSE, a free download.  There are several different
> Linux OS'es represented among the Xastir users, as well as FreeBSD.
> Then there are the non-PC users and several choices of OS there
> depending on platform.
>
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