> Well, I know we have members. (174 officially on the list and most
> replied to my spam)
>
> We need discussions! What have you done with Linux or other
> free software lately? Any reinstalls? Who switched distros in
> the last six months and why? Was it worth it? Even if you only
> have time for a couple sentences, we all can benefit from your
> experiences.
Wine has recently become able to install, launch, and run
certain proprietary topo map software; Garmin MapSource and
Maptech Appalachian Trail, but not Delorme nor Topo.com. Most
recently, at long, long last, it finally managed also to get
both to talk to a GPS.
Sometimes, that is. It does it under Fedora 10 on my
desktop; but I have yet to get it to under Fedora 11 Preview on
my laptop.
I made the mistake of buying one of the first of the ASUS
EeePC machines -- which has long since proven too small for my
eyes and fingers. I'll upgrade to a somewhat larger machine when
I can afford it; meanwhile, I fiddle occasionally with installing
one distro or another, trying to get one that not only runs well,
but boots quickly enough to be worth using in waiting rooms, the
only place the machine itself seems to have any promise for me.
There an amazing number of minimalist distros out there,
some designed specifically for the EeePC and its ilk, some
cultivating minimalism for its own sake -- such as Puppy and
Mint, for instance. There are Parsix and DreamLinux and
EasyPeasy, Moblin and TinyCore -- and versions of Fedora and
Ubuntu ....
--
Beartooth Implacable, Curmudgeonly Codger Learning Linux
On the Internet, you can never tell who is a dog --
supposing you care -- but you can tell who has a mind.
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