Hello Bob I can wait till May. Happy holidays to you Flexers!
José F5JD Le dimanche 23 décembre 2007 à 15:58 -0500, Robert McGwier a écrit : > Alan NV8A wrote: > > On 12/23/07 01:36 pm Tim Ellison wrote: > > > >> You will not always get the "Found new hardware" message. Particularly if > >> the device driver is already registered with Windows. > >> > >> The FLEX-5000 hardware is registered as a sound device under Windows. > >> Windows wouldn't know a radio if it jumped up and slapped Billy G. in the > >> face. (which is one of the many reasons why the next version of the > >> software will not have Windows as the primary OS for running the radio) > > > > You mean I'll be able to dump Windozzze and use Linux on my shack > > computer!? How about being able to compile the source code for "The OS > > for which Windows was merely a placeholder" (= IBM's OS/2, still alive, > > -- despite IBM's best efforts -- well, and ever improving -- thanks in > > no small part to dedicated programmers in Russia and Ukraine -- at > > www.ecomstation.com)? > > > > 73 > > > > Alan NV8A > > > That is the goal and using parallels or bootcamp on OSX or KVM/QEMU on > Linux will get you the windows support needed for legacy applications. > You will regret not having a Core 2 processor if you intend running > Windows on KVM on Linux. My Linux machine running Windows XP SP2 under > KVM/QEMU and using VS 2003 compiles powersdr faster than my P4 HT > running XP! Alas, there is no serious IO MMU hardware yet so things > like firewire and usb are not or poorly supported respectively. The > device cannot magically appear in KVM/QEMU in the "right place" and > owned by the guest yet. But it is clear, this is coming. Soon, we will > not be having this argument. You will seamlessly run whatever you want > to WITHOUT having to dual or even triple boot. > > But full and complete support of what is coming down the road many moons > out will require an eventual migration of some of the work to a Linux > machine. Just not tomorrow or next month. > > Bob > > > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
