On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 10:55:13PM -0700, Nagendra, VU2CLN wrote:
> BTW this distribution war's,
> Is there any distribution which is made for Hams ,
Debian is user-contributed 100%, so we can make it whatever we want to.
The collection of ham software pre-packaged for Debian is growing.
The default kernel does not have the ham stuff as modules -- this is something
we could work on, although it isn't too hard to recompile the kernel
and we hams are experimenters anyway, right?
> and all other crap removed like which any ham will never use like
> scsi/ISDN/development/etc support, and all this is just few disks, I think we
I certainly use the development stuff for ham stuff. You need it to compile
things which aren't prepackaged. And I use SCSI too.
You could make a one floppy linux system for a digipeater or APRS repeater
probably. I suspect it could be done. I have a fairly comprehensive
bootdisk running libc5 tools with lots of TCP/IP (for ethernet) stuff,
which could probably be modified with all the ax25 utils put on.
If there's interest on the list, let's work on it. I had to use a 1722kb
disk though :-)
> This will bring Linux based radio systems upto the win95+AWG leve but with the
> same flexibility as before with more people getting on to linux.
I never got AWG to work. It doesn't work on NT, for one thing, nor support
soundmodem. I now have a TNC but can't be bothered with it.
Cheers,
Hamish VK3SB
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