F8 and a GPS -OT

[Beartooth]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:18:32 +0930, Tim wrote:

> On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 20:40 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>>         Everything I know of requires a far better grasp of linux, or
>>         of
>> GPS technology, or of cartography, than for instance the suites sold by
>> Garmin, DeLorme, Maptech, or Topo.com to run on M$ machines.
> 
> That only holds true if they work flawlessly.  If you have to battle
> bugs or compatibility issues, as so many Windows users have to do, or
> even incredibly crappy installers, you're in a worse position.

	Not quite. At least I do get to use them a lot of the time. I 
have yet to find one native to linux that the likes of me can use at all.

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
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