Re: [Elecraft] Options for contest logging software under Linux

2022-06-13 Thread Kevin Anderson via Elecraft
Kevin, KD5ONS, Depending on your Linux background, and your goals with contesting, for your Option #3, I would recommend TRLog for Linux, https://www.kkn.net/trlinux/ This is a port by Kevin Schmidt, W9CF, that migrates Tree's (K6TR) TR-Log using its native Pascal source code (by permission

Re: [Elecraft] Options for contest logging software under Linux

2022-06-12 Thread Jack Brindle via Elecraft
Kevin; I’m curious, why do you wish to run N1MM Logger? It is a very good contest logger, but for general purpose logging there are better choices. As for running it under virtualization, I ran it using Virtual Box (on the Mac) until I had a really good reason to use VMware Fusion - that was

Re: [Elecraft] Options for contest logging software under Linux

2022-06-12 Thread Brian Hunt
Kevin, For option 3 you might take a look at the groups.io linuxhams. A quick search there unearthed xlog. Don’t know anything about it but the write up says general and contest logging. Dual booting the computer you want to use for contesting could be option 4.  73, Brian, K0DTJ > On Jun

Re: [Elecraft] Options for contest logging software under Linux

2022-06-12 Thread David Herring
Kevin, Windows VM on Virtual Box would be a slam dunk, but that does take up a lot of your computer’s resources. But, once it’s installed and windows is running, N1MM and most all other windows apps will run FB and not know the difference. If you are leaning toward a wine solution, you may

[Elecraft] Options for contest logging software under Linux

2022-06-12 Thread kevin
I run versions of Linux on five of my computers.  I would like to implement N1MM's logging software on one of them.  It appears I have three options: 1) Install N1MM directly and use wine to run it. 2) Install N1MM in a Windows 7 virtual machine under Virtual Box. 3) Use another logging