[Xastir] FOLLOW-UP: One last problem

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 08:56:12PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jerutley at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> >
> > Relatively easy to set up, perfectly suited to the task, and well-maintained
> > (aprsd has a number of bugs that require patching, and finding the right
> > place to download the patches can be a challenge).
> 
> Except for the fact that javARPSSrvr is closed source, and written in
> Java, which closes off anyone not running an x86 cpu from being able
> to run it, and for those that do have x86 cpu's, it'll slow your
> machine to a crawl.  Plus you can't even download and try it out
> without emailing some random guy on the net and begging for a copy.

I run javAPRSSrvr on a SheevaPlug, which is an ARM processor, not an x86.

It is a very underpowered machine, and runs javAPRSSrvr Just Fine.

The closed-source nature of it doesn't bother me.   It's free, its author
doesn't ask you to "beg" for it,  just ask.  If you don't want that, fine, but
it is the software that is best-supported for the task.  Xastir's igate 
is OK, but frankly not fully implemented.  Enough for most users, but there
are some holes (for example, it won't beacon a posit to go with gated messages).

APRSD is broken in many ways, and while open-sourced, is mostly abandoned.

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