Garmin Going Linux?
Jun
9
2006
Back in January Garmin announced they would be supporting Mac in future products and now we see hints that Garmin might be looking at offering Linux support. Garmin currently has a job opening for a “Linux Software Engineer” who will:
Develop software in C, C++, or other selected languages for either embedded or application development for desktop Linux GARMIN communication and navigation products
I know lots of GPS geeks who are also Linux geeks (no offense intended, I’m one of them!) that would be extremely excited if this in fact true, and is something beyond just embedding Linux in a particular device.
I am one as well. Let’s hope some good things come out of this. It sounds like a great combination to me.
-Clint
me also,
linux software for the gps devices would be cool
anybody know any good apps on lin ?
I hate to start up windows especially for using my garmin device. Please come up with a Linux version.
Found this online petition that will be of interest. Please spread it around….
http://www.petitiononline.com/Garmin/petition.html
We don’t use Windows in my family or entourage…
Garmin VistaCX needs Ubuntu 7.10 compatibility!
Note that it is already possible to run MapSource under wine in Linux. Because this seems to be rather unknown, I’ve summarized what you have to do for this on this page
Yup, it works with wine, and there are some apps that will use a Garmin GPS unit, but actually making the software for Linux will send a message that they realize that there are other operating systems out there. It’ll sell one to me at least.
Does anyone know of any GUI open source software that works on the GPS units? Morghan mentioned that there are.
Viking works with some of them. I could download waypoints from an etrex via usb/serial connector. I couldn’t download my waypoints from a streetpilot c330.