Thanx guys - gonna try kpackage and see how it goes!

Cheers!

GPS Mapping Software for Linux
 

Is there any GPS Mapping Software for Linux?
I'm thinling of something like Oziexplorer or Fugawi but for Linux.
John

Have you tried running them with wine, or Crossover? I've had both Memory Map and Navbox running on SuSE with no problem.

There are a few native apps, such as GPSdrive which may also be worth a look.

Shunter
Thanks for the help. I do not have Linux at the moment but am considering buying an eepc and using it as a moving map display in cockpit. Thus Oziexplorer on Crossover/wine should be a good solution.

Mepis Linux
 

"Ever since I was a young boy
I must have played them all.........."

Red Hat, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, SuSE, Knoppix, and more but Mepis always stood out.

Hand crafted by Warren Woodford the newest Mepis 8.0 is just plain the best Linux distro I've ever used.

KDE on Debian Lenny with thousands of little tweaks to make it just work like it should.

Smooth as a tomcat pissing on glass

Mepis Linux: MEPIS | Now Shipping Version 8.0

Worth buying the DVD (shipping very quick)

:ok:

Mac

I've preferred Debian based distros for years. For the last couple I've used Kanotix & then Sidux. The APT package management works well to resolve dependencies.

On the other hand, my wife's laptop works well with Sabayon, a Gentoo derived distro. Portage is also a good package management system with the advantage of being able to install from source with your own compilation optimisations

Thanks for that:ok: I'm about to give it a go. I have ubuntu on a HP compaq 6720s laptop. Yep! it was Vista and it was crap, I tried to load XP Pro and it threw a fit due to some hardware issue. Ubuntu no problem at all, picked up all the hardware and connected wirelessly ok!
Now running the 'disc sanitizer' ready for a play with Mepis 8.0:ok:

What's the advantage with the DVD over a download onto CD... :confused:

The advantage of a DVD? Not having to download hundreds of megabytes of stuff, including much you will never use. It's a non-issue if you have a fat internet connection.

As of last weekend I am officially Linux-only at home, with this notebook and an AMD64 desktop both running Ubuntu 9.04. I could only think of one Windows application that I use that has no Linux version or equivalent, and that's a game (Guild Wars) that I got running under Wine.

(The desktop still has its Windows installation accessible at boot, in case I need to get to a program to convert data or something, but disk will eventually get pulled out and turned in to a NAS disk.)

Linux Corner
 

Mods,

I see a Mac corner and plenty of Windows-related threads. I'm sure there are enough Linux users out there (at least I hope so) which might support the creation of a Linux Corner, eh?

Ubuntu
 

I second that!

OpenSuSE or Mandriva. Both nice for messing with under the hood.
Ubuntu is very nice too but somewhat restricting.

bash-3.2$ find . -name "linux-corner" -print
bash-3.2$
bash-3.2$ echo "what do we want ?"; echo "linux-corner"; echo "when do we want it ?"; echo "NOW"

:p

Not sure how popular it would be though, I'm not fussed either way.....Macs rule ok !

P.S. Strictly speaking, you should not discriminate against BSD users either !

Mixture:

I think it might be more popular than you think. I'm sure there are some good ol' Linux users out there lurking on these forums!!!!

Well, that's 3 so far - and I'm sure that Keef would be keen.

Need quite a few more for it to be viable, though.

SD

I was an enthusiastic Linux user. I spent several years learning all the niceties of filenames starting with . and modprobes and the rest. I'd got my Linux machine able to boot ten different distros, on four hard drives. GRUB was my friend. I was coming to the conclusion that when Win XP died, I'd switch to either Fedora or Slackware. I'd also set up a couple of friends with Linux, and they were learning the refinements of Ubuntu, which somehow (we never did suss it) transmogrified to Kubuntu.

Then my video card died and was replaced with a later model from the same manufacturer. Only one of the ten Linuxes would work - the rest reported incomprehensible errors. Clearly, a new video driver was needed, but after several hours of fruitless searching to find the right one and how to install it, I started the device in Win XP from an old partition. That worked, told me which video driver it wanted for proper GUI operation, and off we went.

I loaded the RC version of Win 7, and that worked "out of the box". It was a lot faster than XP - and nearly as fast as Linux. My dalliance with Linux ended there.

I've been told that I should have persevered harder, and that anyone worth his salt could easily fix a Linux video driver mismatch. When I asked on a couple of fora how to do that, I was told I'm too stupid to be allowed out, which I think meant they didn't know either.

It's a very clever system; there's lots of brilliant software, all free; it's capable of almost anything - if you have the patience. I don't have that much life left to me.

Enjoy the Linux thread; I will look in from time to time but probably not participate.

Thanks Keef. Yes, you could have fixed the video card problem in Linux: it's not that difficult. (Probably a bit more so than in Windows though.) Most up-to-date distros
fix such issues quite readily though.

As for Ubuntu. Kubuntu, or whatever they call it, is Ubuntu with the KDE GUI environment as opposed to Ubuntu which uses the Gnome GUI. It's merely a matter of choice with nothing different under the hood, mostly.

Problem was, the naughty distros dumped me out at a "command prompt" with a stream of error messages. I knew what they had to be about, but many hours of searching failed to identify the right filename to download. I suspect the right driver file and a modprobe or two, plus some editing of the X-server config files would have made short shrift of it. As ever, knowing how makes it a ten minute job. I didn't know how, and couldn't find anyone who did.

That was about six months ago; since then, I've used Fedora 8 (the one that carried on working) several times - it's the only thing in my study that I can get to talk to the Cisco modem/router.

Keef, if you ever tire of Fedora you might want to check out OpenSuSE. It's one of the few distros I have experience with that works "out of the box". (I bet it would even work from the get-go with your Cisco router). It's clean, tight and very intuitive. It's my personal belief that OpenSuSE would even give Mac OS X a run for its money were it more widely accepted. I've also swapped out numerous pieces of hardware under OpenSuSE and it located and loaded the correct driver, seamlessly, 99.9% of the time.

But Fedora is nice as well. it's used by Red Hat to flesh out their Red Hat Enterprise Linux offerings! (Sort of like OpenSuSE which is used to flesh out Novell's SuSE Enterprise Linux offerings.)

You are right Keef. It will always be things like firmware or the drivers that let Linux down!

Correct Michael. But the Linux community in general does a very admirable job of keeping up with the latest and greatest firmware and/or driver issues. Remember, most firmware and drivers come from the OEM's. And until they readily open their code, or provide their own..... Linux users will always be playing catch up. Thankfully that's slowly changing in our favor. But it still has a way to go.