[Xastir] Raspberry Pi

[Chip Griffin]

Yes on back orders. I ordered mine recently with a projected delivery of twelve weeks...

--Chip/N1MIE

On Aug 6, 2012, at 16:00, 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
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>> get is
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