Best cheap laptop for linux?
NoOp
glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Fri Aug 14 20:00:27 UTC 2009
On 08/14/2009 06:28 AM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
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> My Wife has a Dell mini 9 using Ubuntu 8.04 and is happy as a clam.
> She browses the web, does e-mail and plays a few simple games on
> line. I have a friend that is using one with a GPS plugged in that
> uses marine charts to navigate his sailboat. These dell netbooks have
> the hardware to be a GPS built in but no software so he has been trying
> to write software to run it. I think the GPS is there for roaming
> wireless and will likely come with software at a later date? I don't
> know if other makes do or not. They are built modular so you can open
> them up and add in hardware and Dell encourages this with out the loss
> of warranty. Makes them easy to up grade!
http://www.bigdumboat.com/cpnindex.html
OpenCPN - works on linux & windows.
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