Anyone know of good Linux GPS driving map software?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Mar 14 15:27:33 UTC 2008
Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>> I tried long and hard a couple years back with CrossOverOffice
>> (CXO); and got to where it would launch and run Garmin, Maptech, and
>> Topo.com (but not Delorme) -- and couldn't enable any of them to talk to
>> any of my GPSs. Maybe you'd have better luck now.
>>
>> One of the machines on my desk has a second hard drive that I can
>> boot to XP when I want to bad enough; I'm in process of looking for a
>> sturdy laptop with XP still on it for the car.
>
> I left 25GB for xp to play in on that lappy, but the default boot is to linux.
>
You'd have a fair chance of making this work if you install the free
VMware server on the linux side and configure it to use the windows
partiton. Even better if you create a virtual vmware drive and install
windows into it. You'll have to re-activate your xp, perhaps either way.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list