Background : my chief offline activity is squirreling, in the
course of which I do a lot of mapping with GPSs -- and have always had to
keep some form of M$ around, in order to be able to get my hardware to
talk to the topo map software I do the mapping with. (Wine can finally
install, launch, and run some of it; but it can't manage to get it to
talk with my GPSs.)
I have of course also watched all the linux-native topo map
software I know of -- for over ten years -- hoping for one to reach a
state of user-friendliness where those of us without degrees in CS,
cartography, and EE can use them.
Current project is trying to learn to handle a suite called
Qlandkarte -- with obliging help from the developers, even.
Suddenly I thought to look into permissions in that -- because of
the state of things here, of course. Sure enough, there was one of those
blasted padlocks. I ran a chown command, and re-launched the program.
Lo and behold!, it downloaded the list of waypoints from my GPS.
Now I just have to download some topo maps into it; if that works, too, I
can have an M$-free house again -- thanks to youss great guyss. Whooda
thunkkit?
--
Beartooth Squirreler
Delenda est MegaSleazo!
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