Ditto! On Mar 29, 2014, at 11:22 AM, Oliver Johns <[email protected]> wrote:
> I understand that someone like Don Wilhelm who has a fairly elaborate local > network would want to stick with Windows. He'll have already done all the > working out of kinks and climbing the learning curve and won't want to do > that again! > > However, for people with less elaborate setups or those willing to change > systems, let me point out a few benefits of the Mac OSX: > > (1) OSX is really just BSD Unix with a fancy GUI on top. All of the > familiar (to Unix and Linux folks) utilities are there. > > (2) There is a set of add-ons to OSX called MacPorts. Pretty much anything > in Linux is also in Macports. For example, python, LaTeX, opera (a free > MatLab clone), etc. And all of it is free, as in no extra charge at all. > > (3) There is an excellent emulation program called Virtual Box. It is > developed by Oracle and is free and mostly open source. It lets me run > Windows 7, Windows XP, and Ubuntu Linux on my iMac and on my Macbook Air with > no gotchas. It just works. So if there is something I need Linux or Windows > for, I just fire up Virtual Box. > > (4) The old (but sometimes necessary) X-Windows system is also a free add-on > for OSX. I use it to run inkscape, a dynamite vector graphics program for > art and graphs and figures, etc. (BTW, inkscape is also free and is > available in Macports.) > > (5) In addition, you get OSX itself, the most sophisticated and polished GUI > out there. The bad side is that OSX and all these goodies run only on > expensive Apple hardware. It'e expensive, but in my experience worth it. > The equipment is beautiful and very good quality. You get what you pay for. > > (6) I can run fldigi in OSX. Works fine. Also the CocoaModem and CocoaNEC > programs by Kok Chen work very well. Etc. > > So, my 200 cents worth. > > Oliver > W6ODJ > > > On 29 Jan. 2014, at 07:24 AM, Anthony Marriott <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I am very much the same way - I have an iMac and Macbook Air but recently >> built a dual boot Win7/Linux box. Originally I went for Win7 since I had >> had enough of running some Ham aps under VMWare on the mac. Now I find >> myself mostly in Linux mode for Ham use - I use Elementary OS as my Linux >> “distro” of choice because I can configure it more to look like OSX. Linux >> has a lot of Ham support, more than OSX probably, and I can configure fldigi >> without issue to operate digital. I still have not given up the mac since I >> am also a photographer, and Photoshop is not available under Linux, so the >> iMac is still my workhorse photo machine. >> >> For an old machine, I’d most certainly try Linux - try eOS, or other Ubuntu >> distro like Mint. >> >> Paul >> AF5BV >> >> On Mar 28, 2014, at 9:21 PM, Phil Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm with Don on this one. I use two Macs, with OS X 10.9.x, for most of my >>> work -- but both have Windows 7 installed in dual boot configuration, >>> because Windows has better support for some needs -- like ham radio and >>> managing my GPS map loads to name two. My workhorse ripping and burning >>> machine is a 5-year old Dell running Win 7 (was XP) because I can use very >>> fast optical drives with it and I prefer the software on that platform. >>> And my ham shack machine is a $280, 10.1" HP running Win 8.1; it does all >>> the Elecraft support quite well, as well as digital modes. >>> >>> But I do have a Raspberry Pi running Linux :-) >>> >>> 73, Phil w7ox > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
