Digi Tacho Analysis software running under Linux

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I am seriously considering using Linux as my OS instead of Windows.
I currently use Exentra Solo Plus software to analyse and download digi tacho data.

Having contacted Exentra asking for advice ref using their software under Linux they
say they “do not support anything other than Windows”

I would love to be able to run some digi tacho download / analysis software under linux,
preferably Linux Mint / Ubuntu.

Of course any free linux software to perform this task would be perfect.

Does anybody have any experience of doing this?

Thanks.

John.

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I guess you could try to run what you have under wine?

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I had a quick try for you, and the Solo Plus demo version just crashes when run under Wine. Wine also doesn’t support USB without a whole lot of trouble either, so the card reader wouldn’t work.

A better option might be using VirtualBox to run a Windows virtual machine. This requires a Windows license key and a fair bit of RAM, but pretty much works flawlessly and also with USB.

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readesm.sourceforge.net/help.html
andreas.goelzer.de/readesm-readi … raph-files
readesm.sourceforge.net/

5

Thanks folks for your help with this. This seems to be just the thing i was looking for.

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Interesting… Thanks!