Same here Paul. At home I only have Linux boxes and the same for the communications units I support. MS software is just too expensive to purchase and keep up and the virus and other malware is horrible.
I came to the conclusion back in 1991 when I learned about Linux that I wouldn't do any ham radio operations on a computer that wouldn't run on Linux. The few times I have helped other hams run ham software on an MS OS, I have always had problems of some sort or the other...and most times it wasn't a problem with the ham software, rather the OS.
Walt/K5YFW
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Paul L Schmidt
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 6:56 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] ALE in Emergency HF use (Re: Another look at
ALE)
doc wrote:
> 2. Difficulty of full-featured use with commonly
> available HF transceivers. (I don't recall if ALE
> software will function on anything but the proprietary
> MS version of windows. If so that leaves millions of
> Apple and Linux users out of the picture.)
MARS-ALE appears to be running under Fedora Core 3 with
Crossover Office 4.1 (wine with the necessary tools to
install M$ Office products). I haven't finished building
the CI-V interface to my rig, so I'm not certain that
the RS-232 stuff is working yet for rig control, but
I can watch the soundings from stations, so what is
potentially the hard part -- the soundcard receive
interface -- is working.
Hopefully I'll have the CI-V and PTT circuits built up
soon and will see how it works on transmit - and wnen
everything is known good, I'll be filling Steve in on
the details so others can do the same.
Unlike most guys with Linux boxes, I don't have
a Windows box, too. If I'm going to run stuff on the
radio, it's either got to be Linux or something that
will run under wine/crossover.
73,
Paul Schmidt / K9PS (and obviously a few other callsigns!)
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