[Xastir] Raspberry Pi

[Doug Fredericks]

That was fast, already have a taker for the pi.

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Doug Fredericks <dugfredericks at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yes on the Raspbian distro.  Did not have a chance to really work with it.
>  Basically just got it up on the screen, did some basic setup, then shut it
> down.  Hoping to get more into it in a week or so.
>
> By the way if anyone wants to get their hands on a pi, I can send you an
> extra I have for cost ($35 plus shipping).  I guess I should say US only to
> avoid shipping problems.  I'm assuming they are still back-order items,
> although they must be getting close to a million units produced by now.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Chip Griffin <n1mie at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Tom,
>>
>> Thanks for the quick reply. I'll check out the thread when I get home (on
>> iPad now).
>>
>> It seems to me that it would be sub-ideal for general use but that for
>> special cases it might be perfect. The Pi is small, cheap, and light. It
>> might be a nice piece to a small system for a local event where a small
>> custom vector map, or no map, might be adequate. It sounds like it can run,
>> and that's a big step.
>>
>> --Chip/N1MIE
>>
>> On Aug 6, 2012, at 12:17, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 11:56:29AM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron
>> collision of the <n1mie at mac.com> flavor, containing:
>> >> Has anyone tried to run Xastir on a Raspberry Pi?
>> >
>> > n1mjf posted a while back that he was using Xastir on his Raspberry Pi.
>>  Look
>> > through the archives for a thread entitled "Xastir with offline maps."
>>  The
>> > sense of the thread was that Xastir's vector map rendering was very
>> slow,
>> > nearly unusable for his purposes.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux
>> http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
>> > Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236
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>> > "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you
>> get is
>> > one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh,
>> oooh,
>> > oooh, the sky is the limit!"  --- The Tick
>> >
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