[BaseCamp] BaseCamp on Linux ??

[Gregg Lenentine]

A couple of things to consider:

1. Wine is fine, most of the time, and they get their updates from the "for
profit" side of the business called Crossover Office. Crossover isn't that
expensive and may be worth the investment. However, if you are tied to
OpenSource then Wine should work as well (except that Crossover Office
would/could work for other things besides Basecamp). YMMV

2. Skip Virtualbox on Linux, or Virtualbox on any platform. Oracle is doing
something to Virtualbox that is making it a dog in performance and
compatibility. There are a lot of people complaining about how Virtualbox
has been on the decline over the past few years. On Linux, for the truest,
most compatible performance, consider using KVM with Qemu and VirtManager.
KVM (or Kernel Virtual Manager) is as its name implies, is built INTO the
kernel, not as an application abstraction sitting on the kernel. If you are
unsure about how to install KVM on Linux, YouTube is your friend. Must be a
bazillion videos to watch on this subject.

Gregg
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On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 12:07 PM saddle sore <ironbutter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the input.  I have heard about running Wine for BaseCamp.
> Something new to look into.  I'm not aware of Virtualbox, so I'll have to
> read up on that.
>
> 4G of RAM is all this older CF-30 can handle according to the research.
> But for what I plan to use it for, 4G is not bad.  Yeah Jerry, it may not
> be up to today's standards but it should operate fine for my needs.    I'll
> try it out for a while and see.
>
> Anyone with hands-on experiences running BaseCamp on Linux, I'd appreciate
> hearing any woes as well as the good points.  I've had good experience
> running it with Windows for years.
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> On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 12:04 AM Jerry White <jerrywhite518 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Yeah I use Virtualbox on my Mac to run Windows. It's fine, and free too.
> Do
> > that. And for heaven's sake, add RAM. 4G? I'm surprised you can buy a
> > system with 4G.
> >
> > Can't answer the Basecamp on Linux question, but I assume the answer is
> no.
> > Garmin makes consumer products and Linux is not a mainstream consumer OS.
> > Also, Basecamp is a GUI, but Linux is not a native GUI, you need various
> > flavors or addins to get a GUI, and that would force Garmin to choose
> which
> > Linux GUI it wanted to support.
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 8:00 PM Bill Norris <bnorris at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > If you had some more ram I would consider using Virtualbox.
> > > The nice thing about a virtual machine is that you can 'Save State'
> > > instead of shutting down. 'booting up' would be very fast.
> > >
> > > Bill
> > >
> > >
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> > > From: Basecamp <basecamp-bounces at lists.micapeak.com> on behalf of
> saddle
> > > sore <ironbutter at gmail.com>
> > > Sent: Sunday, February 7, 2021 6:59 PM
> > > To: BaseCamp <basecamp at micapeak.com>
> > > Subject: [BaseCamp] BaseCamp on Linux ??
> > >
> > > I just picked up a new-to-me ToughBook.  My regular laptop travels well
> > but
> > > ya can't miss with a Toughbook.  With a new 1T harddrive and 4GB RAM,
> > I've
> > > partitioned off Windows 7 to it's own corner and I am running Linux
> > Ubuntu
> > > as my default operating system now.  Lots for me to learn.
> > >
> > > Are you running BaseCamp on Linux?  If so, where do I find the version
> > for
> > > Linux?  I've been looking and Google is suggesting alternatives but not
> > > BaseCamp specifically.
> > >
> > > I guess I can always select Windows as the perating system when I want
> to
> > > run BaseCamp, but I'd prefer running Linux all the time.
> > >
> > > Any one successful with BaseCamp on Linux?
> > >
> > > Thanks,  Joe Y
> > > in western Pennsylvania
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