[Xastir] revisiting aprsd

[Tom Hayward]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:21, Mike Swiatkowski, AA9VI <aa9vi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Xastir is a very GOOD aprs program but I wish it had the ability to igate to RF better also. That may be one of its more noticeable deficiencies.  I'd also like to see the ability to add status text, and PHG data when running a WX station, similar to UI-View. Finally, it's far from my skillset to know the inner working of this, but it seems Xastir can be memory intensive at times.  Is there a way to manage that better?  Maybe I just need to upgrade from the 1.8 GHz HP desktop with 2 GB ram on Debian 6. My other program running on there is Echolink using Wine.
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> Great work otherwise!
> Mike, AA9VI

You mentioned aprsd in the subject, but nowhere in the message. If
you're looking for a standalone igate, please look into aprx
(http://wiki.ham.fi/Aprx.en). It's a very capable igate with minimal
memory footprint. With a Linux AX.25 interface, you can run it
simultaneously with Xastir, and exit Xastir when you don't need a GUI.

Tom KD7LXL