[Xastir] Window version

[Lee Bengston]

AndLinux requires Windows 2000 (or newer).  I believe the default config for
andLinux is to use 128MB of RAM, but it can be edited to use 64MB.  That
implies it could be installed on a PC that has only 128MB of RAM.  I have
Xastir running under Windows using andLinux and VMware, and it definitely
runs faster under andLinux. AndLinux installation itself is also very fast.
 One disadvantage of andLinux is that it is based on Ubuntu 6.10, which is
now two releases behind.  With VMware one can install almost any Linux
distribution and version.  AndLInux being based on Edgy/6.10 doesn't matter
if Xastir is installed from source, however, as Xastir 1.91 from CVS
compiles just fine.
VMware is nice - it has worked very well for me, but it does require a fair
amount of memory, and I have found that particularly VMware server runs slow
if the host processor is not a relatively modern one.  Using VMware also
takes significant time to set up - either the time to download a large
pre-made virtual appliance of Linux, or create your own, which is a full
Linux installation under VMware.


Lee Bengston
K5DAT- Murphy, TX


On 10/29/07, David Flood <davidf4 at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> Cygwin currently supports 98 (sorta) but support for anything earlier than
> W2K is in the process of being removed.  GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick
> support are both broken unless you compile your own from the original
> source.
>
> VMWare Player requires W2K or later and can not use the swapfile for
> memory so you have to have lots of real memory.
>
> Virtual PC requires XP or a Pro version of Vista (it complains but sorta
> works on the Home versions of Vista).
>
> If your laptop is a Pentium and has at least 64M ram, you'd be best off
> using Linux.  If you have less than 128M ram you might need an early
> version of Linux to do the disk partitioning and then you can set up swap
> areas that can be used by the newer versions.  Unfortunately, most
> distributions today assume you have something "new" and so have almost as
> much installer bloat as Microsoft.
>
> Dave
> KD7MYC