[Xastir] Is there any one version of Linux better than another for xastir ?

[Neville A. Cross]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I installed Xastir a few years ago on the Slackware based Vector
> Linux, and it was fine.  One thing about Slackware, however, is that
> it is harder to find binary versions of some of Xastir's dependencies,
> so depending on which dependencies the user needs, it could take
> considerably longer to get everything set up prior to compiling Xastir
> itself.
>
> Recently I haven't had any trouble installing Xastir from CVS in
> Ubuntu 10.04, PCLinuxOS 2010, Sidux 2010-01, Mandriva 2010.1 or Mepis
> 8.5.  I have to admit I haven't tried getting ax25 working in any of
> them, so there may be differences there.  My personal preferences are
> the non-Ubuntu Debian based distros (Mepis and Sidux), but there's
> nothing scientific about that.
>


I have installed Xastir with a TNC using KISS on Ubuntu and Fedora.
When I first tried Fedora9 there was a separate repo for ax.25 files,
but from Fedora10 you can find them on the main repository.




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