This isn't really an Elecraft topic, but ... please see
https://www.winehq.org/license.
You're right, imho. If you have a ton of Windoze software, you should
stay with Windoze. Many users have transitioned to Linux recently,
particularly after the Win10 nagware episode(s). Some of them have Win
software they'd like to keep using. In most cases, wine is a acceptable
and valid option for doing that. If the packages they're running are
already paid for, it doesn't put any additional $ in M$'s pocket.
73,
matt W6NIA
On 7/31/2016 8:14 AM, Mike Rhodes wrote:
Ok, I am not a Unix/Linux user. Years ago I did a little C
programming on a real-time Unix box but have forgotten way more than I
learned about that system (and C).
However, I have to ask the question - what is the point of getting
away from "windoze" by going to a Linux box and then immediately
slapping a fully licensed copy of "Windoze", running under an
emulator, on that Linux box. It just seems not only counter-intuitive
but counter-productive. Since the majority of the apps that I wish to
run are strictly Windows based, it just seems to make more sense to
run the real thing natively. If the intent is to not add more to the
Gates billions then you have defeated that by running under an emulator.
Mike / W8DN
On 7/31/2016 10:39 AM, Matt Zilmer wrote:
All the Elecraft utilities I use work fine on Wine, under Ubuntu
16.04. Using Wine dodges the multiarch requirement, and it seems
100% compatible with all Windoze API calls the utilities make. If
you decide to go this way, you'll have to make a symlink between
/dev/tty<whatever> to COM1 in dos_devices. If your serial port under
Linux is /dev/ttyUSB0, in a terminal type
ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1
[Also, see
http://askubuntu.com/questions/685985/symbolic-link-between-usb-and-com-port].
The Linux native utilities are ported from Win32 to the Linux 32-bit
API.
73,
matt W6NIA
On 7/31/2016 4:01 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
* On 2016 30 Jul 20:39 -0500, Bill wrote:
I am only interested in how well the Elecraft provided software
under Linux
works? I do not use any third party stuff at all. Is it as easy and
straight
forward as their Windows software?
K3 Utility, KPA Utility, etc.
Be aware that the Elecraft utilities are only available in 32 bit
versions at this time. If you use a distribution that allows
'multiarch', and Mint should being a Debian derivative, you will need
i386 architecture enabled if your base architecture is amd64. Ubuntu,
and probably Mint, have this enabled on amd64 installations. You will
probably have to manually install the i386 versions of some libraries.
It sounds like more of a hassle than it really is.
73, Nate
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