Looking for a GPS only distribution for Freerunner

Boudewijn wankelwankel at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 12 23:08:44 CET 2012


On Sunday 12 February 2012 22:05:47 Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Guilhem Bonnefille <guilhem.bonnefille at gmail.com> writes:
> > Do you know such a project? Someone started similar project? Do you
> > have any suggestion to start something like this?
> 
> I'd just take some distribution that you know and configure it to meet
> your needs. You probably want to think about power management a bit,
> perhaps add some logic that will automatically shutdown freerunner if
> battery energy goes below 20% to make sure that you'll never completely
> drain the battery.

Taking a distro that you already know is easier to modify. If you want to 
start basic and extend from there, I can recommend openwrt. It is ligthweight, 
runs Tango- or Foxtrotgps and in case of emergency, still is able to make 
phonecalls. 

Boudewijn
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