Last night for the fun of it I installed Ubuntu and TeamSpeak an hour before the meeting, it took 22 minutes to do a network install of Ubuntu, actually about 15 minutes but I stepped away a couple of times and it just sat there waiting on me to make a decision. TeamSpeak worked fine after figuring out how to setup the sound cards. Long before the hour was up I was up and running fine.
I had three sound cards and they all worked right off the bat, I ran some Excel spreadsheets on Open office and everything seemed to be working just fine. Pretty easy install. At 09:38 AM 4/21/2006, you wrote: >Too late. The decision's made already: Ubuntu. > >73 >Frank >AB2KT > >Jim Lux wrote: > > I'm going to leap right into the middle of a religious war here.. > > > > As all the linux-o-philes know, there are probably 200 different distros > > out there, each having some unique properties that at least one person > > finds useful. > > > > As you move towards more Linux for more SDR, I'd like to throw this idea > > into the pot. > > > > Many times, developers choose the distro based on their personal > > preferences: they have other stuff that runs on it, they're familiar with > > it, they know how to build packages or rpms for it, it happened to be the > > first distro they ever installed... And, inasmuch as they are doing their > > development as a labor of love, these are perfectly good reasons. > > > > However, if you're looking to create a product with wide applicability, > > particularly one that might be interesting to non-developers, you might > > want to do a "market survey" to find out which distros are most popular in > > ham-dom - among those who are potential users of the radio! (not among > > those who might be interested in developing the software) > > > > For instance, if you were to run a survey among the current > members of this > > list, you'd get statistics on what people who are into tinkering and > > experimenting would like. But this is not the actual target audience, is > > it? You want to make it easy (plug it in and go) for someone who happens > > to be running Linux on their desktop. To that end, I think it is > > worthwhile to consider developing the Linux stuff (at least the release > > versions) for some fairly mainstream distro (RH, Mandrake, Debian, Fedora, > > etc.). Why make it hard for someone who wants to try it out. Yes, you can > > generally recompile for your target, but why force someone to make clean; > > make, just to try out the sdr software? > > > > From a "demonstration" standpoint a "live-cd" distribution > (Knoppix) might > > also be good. > > > > > > > > James Lux, P.E. > > Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group > > Flight Communications Systems Section > > Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213 > > 4800 Oak Grove Drive > > Pasadena CA 91109 > > tel: (818)354-2075 > > fax: (818)393-6875 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > FlexRadio mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > > Archive Link: > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ > > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >FlexRadio mailing list >[email protected] >http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz >Archive Link: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/ >FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com I fail to see why doing the same thing over and over and getting the same results every time is insanity: I've almost proved it isn't; only a few more tests now and I'm sure results will differ this time ... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20060421/ecd69c20/attachment.htm
