Linux Carputer, Wine, RoadRunner

**joelgat** · 10-23-2007, 06:15 AM

Hello,

I searched and the term Linux never shows up in my searches... I'm curious to see if anyone has used a Linux carputer and then used RoadRunner via Wine, since there are no currently completed front ends for Linux (that I've found).

I would like to have a completely open-source carputer project (eventually), thus linux...

Joel

**Dennis5587** · 10-23-2007, 04:23 PM

So... why use roadrunner if you're using linux?

There are some guys/girls? who have used linux successfully, without road runner though. They usually created their own frontend

**joelgat** · 10-23-2007, 04:29 PM

Hello,

Are there any front ends that are currently still being updated, for Linux? I'm in no way capable of making my own front-end, which is why I was asking about using an existing windows front end (roadrunner) on linux via wine.

Thanks,
Joel

**Enforcer** · 10-23-2007, 05:05 PM

From what I have seen on the forums the main issue with a Linux front end is the GPS/Navigation side. There are no real goos solutions available at the moment but I am sure they are being worked on.

I remember a thread a while ago where someone was trying to get FreeDrive (A destinatoor based GPS) working using wine but was having issues with some of the VB runtime files.

So I guess RoadRunner might well have similar issues as it too is written in VB.

However why not try it?