Please consider the following. I would be interested to hear your opinions. The Amateur Radio pastime seems to me to have two types of practitioner: the inveterate home brewer who loves to build and tinker with everything, and the people who prefer to simply buy their stuff either new or s/hand and therefore spend more time actually operating it. There are of course infinite shades of grey between these two extremes but my observation is that the two camps are fairly polarised. Linux of course belongs with the former group. It's got everything they need. There is a built in requirement to constantly tinker with it and "roll-your-own". A Godsend for the chronic homebrewer. Windows is distinctly analogous to the Off-the-shelf Yaesu/Icom/Kenwood/etc transceiver. "No user serviceable parts inside" Just plug it in and start operating. I think we know which category subscribers to this mailing list fall into. We understand the thrill of doing it yourself and seeing it work. I know the ARRL understands this. I have read those very words in their gospels. 73 Peter VK6PEC
