[Techtalk] Intro and a question

Digital Era dgtlera at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 5 07:47:44 UTC 2007


--- Billie Erin Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:

> I've been on the list for a while and quite enjoy
> the answers to
> questions. One list I'm on just about the total
> opposite.
> Anyway.........................I've been playing
> around with Linux for a
> while off and on, and a, near, total Linux user for
> about two years now.
> Right now my primary OS is openSuSE 10.2 X86-64. on
> an eMachine dual
> core intel. I have it triple booted with XP and
> Vista [ total trash ],
> but am considering giving up on Vista and putting in
> another Linux
> Distro. Probably either Mepis or Freespire, or, on
> the other hand,
> possibly something else entirely. I've tried Ubuntu
> [not really very
> impressed], Mandriva [uh....ok], PCLinux [didn't
> really play with it
> long enough to make an opinion, but it looked nice],
> Freespire [would
> like to spend a little more time with this one
> sometime] and Mepis [ it
> has it's own problems to get through].
> 
> My one question seems pretty simple on the surface.
> I'm also a ham radio
> operator and we are building up a van to go storm
> chasing in. I need a
> mapping software similar to Microsoft Streets and
> Trips, Rand McNally
> Road Atlas, or the DeLorme mapping software [ can't
> remember the name
> right off ]. Whatever i get has to have street level
> mapping for at
> least Oklahoma and Kansas. It would be nice to have
> national at that
> level, but not really necessary. It needs to be in
> an RPM format
> suitable sor SuSE [I have very poor luck with CLI
> stuff]. Wine doesn't
> seem to be a workable solution either. I've never
> been able to get
> something to run there.
> 
> Does anyone know of anything like this for Linux?
> 

Pay a visit to below, the site has alot of open-source
mapping utils, mostly *NIX: 

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/



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> Billie Walsh
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