Hi all;
I have an 800 MHz AMD computer with 512 MB RAM and primary 40 GB HDD and
secondary 80 GB HDD divided into three virtual discs of 40, 20, and 20 GB. I am
running Windows XP.
I would like to install LINUX on the third 20 GB virtual disk. Questions:
1.. Is it possible?
2.. If yes,
hi rick, and the bunch,
in answer to your question, run Linux and dump Windows?
here is my experience.
some things you must be prepared to deal with if the help desk at you
ISP knows you are running Linux, they will treat you like a leper. They
will tell you that you MUST run Windows and
This is very good news that you can run Irfanview. This is my main
quick viewer that I have used for many years and find it about the
best there is. And if you can actually run Multipsk under Wine, that
solves a major problem too.
By now I would have expected someone to have a web site or some
Harv Nelson wrote:
some things you must be prepared to deal with if the help desk at
you ISP knows you are running Linux, they will treat you like a leper.
We recently went through that with our church's system -- we have a
Linux system on the DSL line, running as a firewall (router, proxy
When I boot up a Linux Live CD or DVD (depending upon the particular
distribution), it seems to automatically connect to the internet without
anything being done to the existing router. I wish I could say the same
for being able to read existing files on the hard drive.
73,
Rick, KV9U
Paul
Not that it helps dialup, but speakeasy is quite Unix friendly, and
competitively priced. They market mainly to the extra-savvy
crowd...they advertize their latency times, for example.
There are some around, but not many.
Leigh/WA5ZNU
Just today installed and some QSOs made, seems fine (Ubuntu 6.06)
Only miss mt63 and FEC DominoEX
-Tommi oh7jjt-
David Freese kirjoitti:
I would like to announce that I have posted fldigi, release 1.01.
This release consists of GPL source code written in C++ and uses the
Fast Light Toolkit
From one programmer to another - nice work matey, some very interesting GUI
ideas.
Simon Brown, HB9DRV
- Original Message -
From: David Freese [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would like to announce that I have posted fldigi, release 1.01.
This release consists of GPL source code written in C++
Leigh L Klotz, Jr. wrote:
Instead of switching Why not get a second computer and try it? You
can use a cheap IOGear video switch, or use VNC and operate it from
your Windows box (or vice versa). An 800MHz P3 or up ought to give
you a pleasant enough experience. I used to recommend
KV9U wrote:
I am at that point that I could switch, even if I have to give up
some of the software that I prefer, since I have retired and do not
absolutely have to have certain Windows only software that I used to
require in my business.
Years ago I had a Linux dual boot and managed
I would like to announce that I have posted fldigi, release 1.01.
This release consists of GPL source code written in C++ and uses the
Fast Light Toolkit gui support libraries. There is also a
pre-compiled binary that is known to operate on several Linux distros
including the Ubuntu derivatives.
I am at that point that I could switch, even if I have to give up some
of the software that I prefer, since I have retired and do not
absolutely have to have certain Windows only software that I used to
require in my business.
Years ago I had a Linux dual boot and managed to correct my MBR and
I too would like to find out the answers to Ricks Questionnaire. Pleas
CC me any responses to his e-mail, thanks !
Paul Metzger
KQ6EH
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On Nov 26, 2006, at 13:47, KV9U wrote:
I am at that point that I could switch, even if I have to give up some
of the software that I prefer, since I
KV9U wrote:
I am at that point that I could switch, even if I have to give up some
of the software that I prefer, since I have retired and do not
absolutely have to have certain Windows only software that I used to
require in my business.
Years ago I had a Linux dual boot and managed to
Instead of switching Why not get a second computer and try it? You can
use a cheap IOGear video switch, or use VNC and operate it from your
Windows box (or vice versa).
An 800MHz P3 or up ought to give you a pleasant enough experience. I
used to recommend RedHat, but Fedora seems to have gone
One more note re. Puppy. The originator of Puppy is
active on the support forum as are all of the developers.
They are an exceptionally helpful bunch of guys, much
like most Hams.
I am certain that they would love to assist with efforts
to bring Ham digi apps up to speed. They have answered
The modes
Supports the following digital modes:
CW
DominoEX 4 DominoEX 5 DominoEX 8 DominoEX 11 DominoEX 16 DominoEX 22
Feld-Hell FSK-Hell FSK-Hell 105
MFSK-8 MFSK-16 MFSK-16 pix
PSK-31 QPSK-31 PSK-63 QPSK-63 PSK-125 QPSK-125
OLIVIA various tones and
I have tried out quite a few live distros. None really impress me from a
graphics standpoint because Linux is different than Windows and just
does not have the finesse or whatever it is that it is missing. But it
is still quite functional.
I did burn a Linux Mint distro in the past couple days
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