[Xastir] Xastir on a a Netbook

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:08:32PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <w2lie at w2lie.net> flavor, containing:
> I currently have Xastir running on my Laptop, and I'm building my first 
> true Linux only desktop for home use as I type this.  Both PC's run (or 
> will run) openSUSE 11.2 with KDE 4.3 desktop.  The laptop is running 
> fine, and I hope that my Desktop has the same good luck.
> 
> The "jolly old fatmam" delivered a nice shiny ACER Aspire One netbook 
> this year..  I must have been really good.  

Lucky you!

> I've installed the 2Gig 
> memory chip and was thinking about putting Xastir on there.  I was 
> thinking about just running a virtual machine, but now I'm really 
> starting to think about splitting the HD in 2, and running Linux in the 
> second partition.  It seems that Ubuntu Remix is the only real solution 
> out there so I was wondering if anyone else happens to be running Xastir 
> on a netbook before I start messing with partitions or anything like 
> that.  I'm happy with openSUSE and I've been reading that there are some 
> extra steps needed to get Ubuntu to run with Xastir.

There are steps to get Ubuntu to run Xastir, but they're all explained 
quite well on the Wiki.  I run Xastir on Ubuntu, and wrote some of the 
earlier wiki entries on doing it (many others have updated the process for
later releases).

I am currently downloading the Ubuntu Netbook Remix iso and will make a 
virtual machine to test out the installation of Xastir 
(http://www.linuxuk.org/2009/09/testing-ubuntu-netbook-remix-in-a-virtual-machine/).  
I'll report back when I know better how much the process differs from 
installing on a normal Ubuntu system.  I expect it'll be mostly the same, but
it won't hurt to check in a virtual machine first.

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