Mike,
What you are possibly getting a little confused is
WINE - which sort of allows Windows executables to run in a Linux
environment. How well this solution works depends upon the Application, and the
DLL’s. This was initially intended for XP/Win NT. Since lots of Windows apps
are now .NET Assemblies this is more tricky to use, as Mono has not been fully
embraced by the Open-Source community.
Virtualisation - Oracle-Virtual Box (KVM and VMware) allows you to run
a different OS (Operating System) machine in another environment (in this case
in a Linux Environment). This solution is the most stable - but at the costs of
further enriching a large US Multi-National. A very good technique and one used
in Data Centres around the world.
Welcome on-board - there may be a few bumps on the way - but you are at
least on the right path.
73s - A45WG
Tim, Muscat: Sultanate of Oman
> On 31 Jul 2016, at 19:18, Mike Rhodes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Ok, I already see I have misunderstood something. I mistakenly thought Wine
> was an emulator that would allow you to run a copy of Windows on Linux where
> it is actually a Windows on Linux simulator. That answers at least part of my
> question.
>
> Mike / W8DN
>
> On 7/31/2016 11:14 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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