On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:08:32PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > I currently have Xastir running on my Laptop, and I'm building my first > true Linux only desktop for home use as I type this. Both PC's run (or > will run) openSUSE 11.2 with KDE 4.3 desktop. The laptop is running > fine, and I hope that my Desktop has the same good luck. > > The "jolly old fatmam" delivered a nice shiny ACER Aspire One netbook > this year.. I must have been really good.
Lucky you! > I've installed the 2Gig > memory chip and was thinking about putting Xastir on there. I was > thinking about just running a virtual machine, but now I'm really > starting to think about splitting the HD in 2, and running Linux in the > second partition. It seems that Ubuntu Remix is the only real solution > out there so I was wondering if anyone else happens to be running Xastir > on a netbook before I start messing with partitions or anything like > that. I'm happy with openSUSE and I've been reading that there are some > extra steps needed to get Ubuntu to run with Xastir. There are steps to get Ubuntu to run Xastir, but they're all explained quite well on the Wiki. I run Xastir on Ubuntu, and wrote some of the earlier wiki entries on doing it (many others have updated the process for later releases). I am currently downloading the Ubuntu Netbook Remix iso and will make a virtual machine to test out the installation of Xastir (http://www.linuxuk.org/2009/09/testing-ubuntu-netbook-remix-in-a-virtual-machine/). I'll report back when I know better how much the process differs from installing on a normal Ubuntu system. I expect it'll be mostly the same, but it won't hurt to check in a virtual machine first. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM In some cultures what I do would be considered normal. -- Ineffective daily affirmation _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
