Will your software support a Bluetooth GPS(either Linux or XP)? I also ordered a USB dongle GPS for it so I hope to have it doing realtime tracking as well as soon as the GPS arrives.Ĭostco has the Eee PC 1000 for $479 and it has Bluetooth. The funny thing is loads GPX files about 3 times as fast as my PC with Windows XP. I have my open-source program GPSTurbo running on it already displaying both Garmin Maps and Google maps. I just got a Asus EEEpc 900 running Linux on Monday. Even after installing a couple of versions I couldn't get Geoqo working. I am running Fedora but egads, there are still a lot of prerequisites! I got everything going except the XML Parser. However, I think that's about to be solved distributing a pre-compiled version in the near future. On anything else, the instructions are a bit more painful because of pre-requisites. On Fedora (which is what I use) you can try "yum install geoqo" to try it. It's quite powerful, but hardly perfectly-friendly yet. After that I started the GeoQO open source project for doing geocaching and generic waypoint management. I ended up cobbling together a bunch of scripts to do what I needed with gpx files which worked well till I decided I really needed something properly designed. There wasn't, however, any decent geocaching database tools for linux. Now with the ability to put maps from openstreetmap into my garmin without touching windows my motivation to use windows is much lower. I almost never use windows and when i do it's frequently to load garmin maps to my GPS. I've been a linux user since, um, well a really really long time since I can't remember. (commenting on feature set :-D, testing on Fedora, localisation (.fi)) Projects wherever my skill set and schedule allows. Linux development, and I could consider contributing to open source Not a coder by any means, but I am interested in all GPS-related Sophisticated geocaching functionality would of course be very welcome.Īlso, using different freely obtainable map content like design a route with waypoints by clicking on a map on a linux workstation, My frequent use case is mountain biking, so I would like to be able to I would really like to see more Linux possibilities for a GPS user,Īnd the current trend for umpc laptops like already posted EeePC I am primarily a Mac user these days, but a long-time linux user also.Ī Red Hat kinda guy I am, having F9 under VMWare Fusion, and I had switched my Pocket PC over to Linux, but switched back to WM6 to use it for paperless geocaching. I user Ubuntu Linux on a laptop and desktop, but not for Geocaching because of the lack of support. I would have done this easier as a poll, but this forum doesn't seem to support them, so I'll have to do the sums by hand! So, if you are a Linux user, maybe you could just reply with a quick post and also state which flavour you use. Given the techno-savvy nature of geocachers, it occurred to me that this particular demographic might just have a higher than normal percentage of Linux users. But times are changing and Linux is becoming a significant force in the market. The rationale seems to be that there are so few Linux users out there that it's not worth their while to offer Linux versions of their apps. Most of the GPS manufacturers make software and firmware available for Windows users, but very few offer support to Linux converts. I'm doing a bit of research to discover how many geocachers users Linux rather than Windows. The question arises from a discussion on another topic thread recently.
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