On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Amateur Radio WB8NUT wrote: > Go to www.vmware.com and download the free VMWare Player. Install on > your windows machine. > > Also on the VMWare site, download a virtual machine for Mepis Linux, > Ubuntu Linux, or Kubuntu. > > Once it is downloaded, start the virtual machine in the VMWare player. > Now you have Linux running as a virtual machine on your windows machine > - at the same time. > > While running Mepis, Ubuntu or Kubuntu, using the Package Manager, > download Xastir - it will install in the virtual machine.
This sounds like a great option for people that don't want to mess with Cygwin. I used to run a licensed copy of VMWare 1.x way back when, and was always quite happy with the software. Now that one can download the VMWare Player for free, VMWare virtual machines are an even more attractive option. How about documenting the above on the Xastir Wiki? A step-by-step for those that are install-challenged. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U "The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
