F8 and a GPS -

Erik P. Olsen epodata at gmail.com
Mon Jun 30 19:19:40 UTC 2008


On 30/06/08 19:21, Bob Goodwin USA wrote:
> Beartooth wrote:
>>
>>     Wine 1.0 is out at last; so it's possible you can at last -- with 
>> it or CrossoverOffice. If you do, please post how here, with a large 
>> fanfare.
>>
>>     I have Garmins, with software from Garmin, Maptech, Topo.com, and 
>> Delorme -- and I have <curse, snarl, screech> a machine I can run XP 
>> on just for that.
>>
>>     Two or three years ago, I worked long and hard, with this list and 
>> two or three others including CrossoverOffice, to manage under linux. 
>> I managed to get two of the four suites of software to run under 
>> Fedora -- but never did get any of them to talk to any of my Garmins.
>>
>>     There *are* also several linux-native apps -- if you're Alpha Plus 
>> Technoid enough to use them. Last time I tried, it took not only a lot 
>> more linux-savvy than I've got, but something like a graduate degree 
>> in cartography besides.
>>
>>     Good luck! And  please report in exhaustive detail. Pretty please.
>>
>>   
> 
> My interest in this project is pretty casual and if it requires Wine or 
> Windows software I wont bother.  This computer will boot Windows XP but 
> hasn't done so in a long while and I have never tried it with the GPS.  
> I did find some GPS related applications listed in Yumex and installed 
> whatever looked appropriate but I am still trying to find what I can do 
> with them if anything.
> 
> Bob
> 
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=gps%2Blinux&btnG=Google+Search

-- 
Erik.




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