For what it's worth, I've had good success getting Xastir working on the box. The only part I'm having real trouble with is soundmodem keeps crashing when ever it decodes a packet.
Im hopling you will well document the steps so those of us that follow later will have the benefit of your efforts.
In the DC area, I think we have several Hams with XO's. Maybe we should schedule a meeting and show and tell so that everyone cal beenefit from the fruits of our efforts?
Kinda like those early digital meetings we used to have.
TO make it easy to compute the centroid of people, everyone could beacon their position on APRS using the LAPTOP symbol with an overlay of "O" and then FINDU.COM can draw us a map. Then we pick the centroid to plan a meeting...
Thanks! Bob, WB4APR