TomTom Home on Linux Today I tried (again) to get my TomTom One GPS to connect to my linux system. And failed. Experiment 1: Can the laptops gpsd read the device as a dumb GPS? Well, no . GPSD cant locate the device at all. I suspect thats because the TomTom One isnt GPS dongle, its a full system on its own. And it doesnt know to pass-through the raw GPS data to simulate a dongle. Experiment 2: Can TomTome Home 2.8 (for controlling the device, uploading new maps, etc) be installed on Ubuntu 11.10? No . The available TTH 2.8 clients are for Win and OSX only. Experiment 3: Can TTH 2.8 be installed on Ubuntu 11.10 using Wine? Sadly, no . The install itself went poorly. On several attempts, only one was successful. Due to two bugs (some custom jiggery in the TTH does in the Windows Registry, and a bug with Wine support for USB) the device cannot be recognized, loaded, or interacted with. Experiment 4: Can TTH 2.8 be installed on Ubuntu 11.10 using a Virtual Machine? Yes . I use a Virtualbo...