Computer on board

[Marmalade]

I've just got the missus a new lappy which means her old one is now "boat equipment". Here's the rub though. It's running unix.

Now I could cave in to the great satan and load up XP, but it's a netbook with limited power that runs just fine under unix but will run like a dog if I load it up with windows. So...

Assuming I stick with unix, email is currently thunderbird, browser is firefox, chat is pigeon, what software can I get for..

tidal calcs
passage planning
weather forecast reception
etc...

I also need to find a usb gsm modem that works with unix.

Any clues anyone?

 

[JerryHawkins]

How about running a copy of XP as a "virtual machine", then just get the readily available apps for that? I'm not a unix/linux person myself, but I know people who run an XP virtual machine on Linux for other apps that just aren't available for Linux.

 

[samwestwood]

Just install a windows emulator such as wine.
you can use it to run most windows programs.

 

[craigbalsillie]

A quick google search found this

http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/sysreq.html

not sure how good it is, it looks to be quite old.. could be out dated I guess..

cheers

 

[2Tizwoz]

Depending upon where you intend to sail you might legally use Digital Nautical Charts for Unix free of charge

 

[smolyneux]

I use the Vodafone GPRS dongle on my Asus eee running Linux; plug and play.

 

[st599]

Xtide
Seaclear 2 under Wine
zyGrib

 

[Searush]

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A quick google search found this

http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/sysreq.html

not sure how good it is, it looks to be quite old.. could be out dated I guess..

cheers

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/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Yeah, the tides they are a-changin' y'gotta keep up, man.