I Just ran across a Very Small Laptop(called the ASUS) that "the Source",(formerly Radio Shack) is selling.The Salesman there said it operates on LINUX and it has a 4 gig Hardrive and 512 of Ram.the price is Well within MY boundaries at 350-500 for the "laptop"..I am Wondering IF Linux will work with the Megasquirt...Thanks guys..It may sound Stupid But I'm Trying to Understand **** "on the Fly here..so Be Gentle with me.!..Cheers,Dave/STYX.

 

You might be able to run it using something called wine, but otherwise no. Ithink there is a thread about this in the haltec section.

 

I thought there was a UN*X based tool available? IIRC it was called MegaTunix.

 

heres a good deal for a windows based laptop.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834107007

 

Megatunix will work fine with ms1/extra, but not with ms2/extra.

megatune for windows works fine in wine though... a bit slow at loading msq's, but otherwise no problem.

Ken

 

If you can get device drivers maybe you can put winxp on the small pc?

Megatunix is dead, there is no support for the current versions of ms1-extra and also no support for anything he doesn't add support for which will probably keep it dead!

 

megatunix is not dead, he's just been working on ms2 support. I'm sure he'll add support for the later ms1/extra codes when he has time.

 

The Asus EEE PC comes from Asus with Linux, but you can load Windows onto it easily. Keep in mind that the 4 Gig "hard drive" is actually flash memory.

They're cool little machines. I've been debating one for a while since my 660LX palmtop is starting to have screen issues.

 

ok I stand/sit corrected

From reading his thread I got the feeling development had ceased

 

I had a go at making a windows xp flashdrive install. But my flashdrive has bad sectors so I couldn't do it. Apparently it works fine tho