Hello Julian,
Such page does already exist at
http://filewatcher.org/lfw/cat/Ham_Radio/
at least for Linux software only. I'm the maintainer of the Ham_Radio
section
and can add in all sections if needed.
FileWatcher.org is a searchable, daily updated directory of
Linux/Unix/Internet
related file archives and programs grouped by topic. It features latest
updates
and file descriptions and has also powerful search engines.
Only the ftp protocol is supported right now, http or even nfs protocol
is planned
in the future.
> Think it's time to have one global and mantained main page for linux &
> hams, with links to:
>
> * Howtos
> * Distribution packages (rpms) of axutils
> * Links to current nettools, and patches
> * Links to devices not yet included in the kernel (yam)
> * Links to protocols not yet 100% included in the kernel (rose)
> etc...
>
All these links can be found there and are updated automaticly. Every
day all
ftp sites are scanned for new files. The lsm files that comes with the
packages
will be included automaticly.
> This page should be supported by all, and announced monthly. That will be
> THE LINUX HAMS index.
The site is not distribution related, all kind of Linux programs can be
found
there. You can even add (suggest) some new kind of programs if you want.
>
> I think it's more important that the pages are continously updated than to
> be nice.
There are no gifs/jpg or other large pictures and the pages are updated
every
day, it has also a mail notification when new programs/packages arrives.
>
> There is several indexes now (some very nice), so maybe their authors
> could separate the "hard work", work in collaborative mode and give us one
> email to communicate the links to be added in this index.
Only additions must be done by hand and the log file must be scanned
regurlerly
to see if everything is working fine.
Julian, if you have suggestions or additions, please let me know, I will
talk to
the site owner if your ideas are possible.
> 73 Julian, ea4acl (new callsign)
73, Erwin (pe1nmb)
