On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Jason Winningham wrote: > Which is the smallest weevil, VM/host OS hardware allocation or > AGWPE? In particular, which is the simplest for a novice to deal > with, assuming soundmodem is not in the picture?
I don't know what the VMWare stuff looks like these days, but way back when the serial port setup was pretty easy. I don't imagine they made it much more difficult over the years. With AGWPE though you can use the same TNC for both Linux and Windows OS on the same machine, or use completely different machines to access them, so that's one advantage. Also, if people already have a working AGWPE install due to their playing around with Windows APRS software earlier, they can take advantage of that. What was really funny way back when was running Windows NT4 and Linux at the same time, running Samba on the Linux side sharing drives to the Windows side. Also running an Apache web server on Linux and the browser on Windows. Kind'a strange being able to do all of this on the same box, but I got used to it quickly. It was in the "explaining it to others" category where it got funny. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U "The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
