[olug] Replacing the Weather Bug

Noel Leistad noel at metc.net
Tue Aug 16 13:13:57 UTC 2005


And, BTW, I have NEVER liked Weatherbug, we distribute w/ our startup 
disk, but always thought it was a PITA. So, if ForecastFox doesn't match 
  functionality, it's due to prior predjudices.



Dave Thacker wrote:
>>>The "kitchen computer" has officially been replaced, and is now running
>>>SuSE 9.3 running KDE.  Outside of the grumbling about having to login,
>>>I've had few complaints.  I do see one heading down the road, though.
>>>My wife runs the "weather bug" utility on her PC at work, and we used to
>>>run it on the former kitchen computer.  I need something that will pull
>>>weather data from NWS in Omaha, and display it prettily on the system
>>>tray.  I've seen a weather component in Kontact, but the data it shows is
>>>pretty limited. Anybody seen a "weather bug" replacement for linux?
>>>
>>>Dave Thacker

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