Mark Pearson wrote:

Hi all,


A friends got a boat & said friend is thinking of going electronic with
the charts. The dedicated bits of equipment aren't desired (or
affordable) with a laptop and or a pda being multifunctional. The
software is always a. MS Windows only & b.silly money AFAIK
Linux based 'Autoroute' type programs exist but has anyone experience of
marine software?
Googling brings up a dead link to one Linux offering which is some 2/3
years dated.
I guess Wine is an option but apparantly some of these (M$) based
programs use 'dongol's(?) which may cause a problem?
Has anyone broken away from the flock and tried something different?
(i.e. non M$ based & therefore stable...)


found this:

http://www.thecapn.com/zcapn.htm

but not sure if the master program which runs on the PC itself can run in
Linux or not.

http://www.thecapn.com/capn1.htm

but it's a start... at least someone is recognising Linux, if only on the
handhelds...

I've just sent them an email asking if they plan to support Linux on the PC
in future.


Cheers,
Mark.


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