[Xastir] Asus Eee PC anyone ?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, William McKeehan wrote:

> I'm thinking this little computer would be a pretty nice fit a mobile APRS
> system.
>
> Has anyone looked at it to see if Xastir can be made to work on it?

4GB of solid-state drive isn't much for storing maps.  I have a
6.4GB in my truck-mount PC and it's quite full.

You'd have to hook up external storage through USB or the memory
card slot probably.

900MHz isn't smoking either, but adequate if you don't mind waiting
a bit.  800x480 pixel screen:  Non-standard but probably ok.  4/5's
keyboard which would drive me nuts!

I don't know if you'd get a complete development environment on that
one, so you'd either have to give up some space to put it on there,
or compile somewhere else (or use an external USB drive temporarily
with the compile environment on it?).

You'd also need to check if OpenMotif or Lesstif are available for
that Linux, else compile from sources.

I already see articles about installing Arch Linux or a complete
custom Linux on it, so the hobbiest are already at work.

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