Re: [Xastir] Xastir on rugged/small devices- Nokia N800

2007-06-26 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, ac7yy - Kim wrote: > Curt, I have a Treo 650 you can have if you want it. Should be worth a > beer though ! Huh? An extra one? That means I could put Linux on #2!!! Yea, that'd be worth a beer. Or five. When are you going to be at our favorite beer joint again? -- Curt,

Re: [Xastir] Xastir on rugged/small devices- Nokia N800

2007-06-26 Thread ac7yy - Kim
Curt Wrote: > My Treo has 320x320 color, but runs PalmOS. Yea, I can boot a Linux > kernel on it, but not sure I want to play with it in that manner as > I'm using it heavily for it's Cell-phone, PDA, and MP3/OGG player > functions as it is under PalmOS5. Sure would be nice to have an > APRS prog

Re: [Xastir] Xastir on rugged/small devices- Nokia N800

2007-06-26 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 08:59:35AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Tom Russo wrote: > > > Nothing for it but for us to start designing Qt into the long-overdue > > Xastir 2.0. :) > > As I recall, there's no lic

Re: [Xastir] Xastir on rugged/small devices- Nokia N800

2007-06-26 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, J. Lance Cotton wrote: > Okay, so then all that needs to be done is fit Xastir in a 320x240 pixel > screen ;-) 'spose. My Treo has 320x320 color, but runs PalmOS. Yea, I can boot a Linux kernel on it, but not sure I want to play with it in that manner as I'm using it heavil

Re: [Xastir] Xastir on rugged/small devices- Nokia N800

2007-06-26 Thread J. Lance Cotton
on 6/26/2007 11:02 AM Curt, WE7U said the following: > As far as X-Windows, I've successfully run it with 16MB. I have > some PP200 laptops that have 32MB and can run Xastir nicely. The > trick is to go through your list of running daemons and axe those > that are not really needed. Also in /etc

Re: [Xastir] Xastir on rugged/small devices- Nokia N800

2007-06-26 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, J. Lance Cotton wrote: > I have a Zaurus, too. There is an alternate ROM system for it (openzaurus) > which comes in two flavors: Qt-based and X11-based. I've only tried the > X11-based one superficially, not with xastir. > > Not sure if it's even worth it -- the model I have

Re: [Xastir] Xastir on rugged/small devices- Nokia N800

2007-06-26 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Tom Russo wrote: > Nothing for it but for us to start designing Qt into the long-overdue > Xastir 2.0. :) As I recall, there's no license fee anymore for Qt on Windows if it's a GPL'ed project either. That would limit anyone wanting to take Xastir commercial on Windows, but

Re: [Xastir] Xastir on rugged/small devices- Nokia N800

2007-06-26 Thread J. Lance Cotton
on 6/26/2007 10:04 AM Curt, WE7U said the following: > I once mistakenly made the offer to someone inquiring about a Zaurus > PDA that if they bought me one I'd be inclined to port to it. It > was a nice device but the amount of time that would be required > would be excessive. I retracted my off

Re: [Xastir] Xastir on rugged/small devices- Nokia N800

2007-06-26 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 08:04:08AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > The N800 is in a similar price range to what the Zaurus was back > then, and I really like it, but I'm trying real hard not to make the > same mistake. If I had some

Re: [Xastir] Xastir on rugged/small devices- Nokia N800

2007-06-26 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Bernard Michael Tyers wrote: > On 21/06/07, Curt, WE7U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Now... This is not to say that Xastir couldn't be made to run on > > such devices. You'd have to compile OpenMotif or Lesstif and get > > one installed on the device, or modify the Xast

Re: [Xastir] Xastir on rugged/small devices- Nokia N800

2007-06-26 Thread Bernard Michael Tyers
On 21/06/07, Curt, WE7U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now... This is not to say that Xastir couldn't be made to run on such devices. You'd have to compile OpenMotif or Lesstif and get one installed on the device, or modify the Xastir GUI to use GTk+ (for the Nokia N800) or Qt (several other devi

Re: [Xastir] Xastir on rugged/small devices- Nokia N800

2007-06-21 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Bernard Tyers wrote: > Along the lines of the mail below about the ruggidized, mini laptop, > has anyone looked at getting Xastir running on a Nokia N800? Some friends of mine keep mentioning that device on the tcpgroup mailing list. From the link you posted it looks like it

[Xastir] Xastir on rugged/small devices- Nokia N800

2007-06-21 Thread Bernard Tyers
Hi all, Along the lines of the mail below about the ruggidized, mini laptop, has anyone looked at getting Xastir running on a Nokia N800? It runs Linux kernel 2.6.18 (http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/ AT8033409446.html) and the development environment is Maemo (www.maemo.org). Of cou