[Xastir] Small linux computers in a wall-wart sized package?

[Lee Bengston]

On 6/11/09, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
>
> http://www.swcp.com/~russo/imgs/sheeva.jpg
>
> That's my brand new SheevaPlug (received Monday) running Xastir with all
> optional libraries except festival and gdal, being viewed over the intarwebz
> via VNC.  The desktop is the ICE window manager.
>
> At the moment it's only running with data from an internet server and
> viewing online TIGER maps and WMS radar (hey, I *just*this*second*
> got it running).

Russo rocks!

> I intend to experiment with AX25 networking Real Soon Now --- built a new
> kernel for the Sheeva with AX.25 support yesterday, and when I have the time
> will try to hook my KISS TNC to it and get it running that way.
>

> Another cool application for the sheeva would be to run a web server with
> mapserver.  Then we could have a network of Xastir laptops all pulling maps
> off of the plug using WMS and sharing a single TNC.  That would be pretty
> killer.

I think that thing would be great for almost any web server application - low
power consumption, doesn't take up much space, etc.

> Geek-o-meter starting to drift into red zone...

Let it ride!

Lee - K5DAT
Murphy, TX