[Xastir] xastir daemon / service?

[Jason KG4WSV]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, SSzretter wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to run xastir on a machine as a service/daemon, and use a
>> different machine to connect to it to view maps?
>
> Nope.  That's been talked about for the Xastir re-write,
> affectionately known as Xastir-2 or Xastir-NG.


... but you can run a basically stripped xastir, no maps, etc., even
on a headless machine.  Not much CPU time is involved.  Share its data
with the server port to other systems.

I'm running xastir (with maps) on an 800MHz/512Mb RAM/compact flash
"disk" system and it's surprisingly snappy.

-Jason
kg4wsv