Garmin Nuvi running on gnome linux

Published in GPS by Aditi Tuteja

Garmin Nuvi 8xx and Garmin Nuvi 5xxx is now running a flavor of Gnome Linux as reported on linuxdevices. The Garmin Linux source code page, also lists source code for version 2.6, 2.7, and 2.8 of the Nuvi 8xx software, as well as versions 3.7 and 3.8 for the Nuvi 5xxx.

Garmin’s source code listing for the Nuvi 800 has a few packages shown below:

  • gnome 2.4.0
  • gnome-vfs-2.16.3
  • xserver-kdrive-common-0.1
  • busybox-1.01
  • tinylogin-1.4
  • blueZ
  • matchbox window manager
  • geoclue-0.9

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This article was written by Aditi Tuteja on 07 July 2008
Aditi is the founder and Chief Editor of RealGeek.com


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