On Jan 2, 2008 1:25 AM, Curt, WE7U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Lee Bengston wrote: > > > VectorLinux (VL) is Slackware based and is very lightweight - great for > > older machines. I'm running it at home now on a PII-366 laptop and a > > PIII-800 desktop. > > I used to run a PentiumPro 200MHz as my main desktop, which required > me to periodically run the Xastir sources through a profiler (once > or twice a year) to make sure it ran efficiently. I'm sorry to say > that I no longer have such a slow machine (hi hi) so my desire to > profile/patch the code in this manner has greatly reduced. > > We did have one user pop in from time to time and tell us whether > Xatir still ran on his 486 laptop. Last I heard it still would.
Ha, I remember building a Pentium Pro-200 once for a friend - at that time the CPU chip alone cost somewhere around a thousand dollars. My main desktop has pleny of horsepower, but it's been fun to breath new life into some older machines with a distro like VL. > > > I don't remember what the typical issues have been when Lesstif is used > > instead of openMotif - if anyone has suggestions on what to watch out > for, I > > would appreciate any input. > > Sliders (Timing dialog and Fetch Findu Tracks dialog) with no > labels. Send Message: Clicking on the HamHUD/D700/D7 toggles > causes problems. Other problems with missing or unreadable labels. So far I have found some menu labels that look garbled - nothing major - just minor annoyances. The timing dialogue and Fetch Findu Tracks dialog are fine - I think it's just the openMotif bug that affects those. I'm going to see if I can find a way to get openMotif 2.23 or 2.24 installed in VectorLinux. If not, the PIII-800 desktop should still run OK with Xubuntu, so that's an option. Regards, Lee - K5DAT Murphy, TX _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
