And if there is a move toward Linux by a larger group of hams, then I'm sure that the ARRL or someone else would start storing the old libraries that make an applications run.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of jgorman01 Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [digitalradio] Re: Movement toward open digital software? That's my one pet peeve about Linux. You go looking for a program to do what you want and find out it is two years old and requires libraries that have been updated 4 times since then. Sometimes trying to find the older libraries is a real challenge. I would love it if everyone would store the libraries and programs necessary to install a program right with the program. Jim WA0LYK --- In [email protected], "DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IMHO, hams have not said we want "this" distro to support ham radio so we adopt it. > > SuSe, Mandrake, Debian and a couple of others cater to amateur radio. My personal leaning is toward Debian and it WAS the first Linux distro. to try and devote itself to being ham radio friendly. > > The real key to a ham radio applications for Linus is to include all the required libraries (dependencies) with the release of the installation and install the executable and with all dependencies in a specific location. So then you are back to MS...C:\Program Files\PSK31 > > But my Linux computer is shared by my family and I don't want them to have access to PSK31 so I want to put it in > my \USR2\k5yfw\digital\psk3 and You might want to put it in \URS3\Sal\amateur-radio\digital\psk31. > > What Linux does for one think is make you think about what you are doing and keep you from becoming an appliance operator? How many hams really know how to program their 2M talkie? > > 73, > > Walt/K5YFW Announce your digital presence via our DX Cluster telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Our other groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxlist/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contesting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wnyar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Omnibus97 Yahoo! Groups Links
