From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralf Baechle DL5RB Subject: Re: Most "HAM" friendly distro ? Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 18:43:16 +0100 Message-ID: <20060107174316.GA756@linux-mips.org> References: <9923fd660601041255o4e45fd5dw572a79848c1781ff@mail.gmail.com> <1136410009.43bc3d99a19e0@mgtmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1136410009.43bc3d99a19e0@mgtmail.com> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: IT3 Stuart Blake Tener Cc: Douglas Cole , linux-hams@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 04:26:49PM -0500, IT3 Stuart Blake Tener wrote: > > Well as most recent postings seem to indicate some distro's are less > > friendly than others for updating and changing kernels and other > > things. > > I too am using SuSE (version 10) for my desktop OS, but still have a > > separate pc running SuSE 8.2 for packet, since it is the one that > > works for me, and as has been posted on here many times, 2.6 kernel > > packet issues have been many. > > My desktop OS is MacOS, and when the new Mac/Intel machines come out, I will > purchase one and run Linux as a secondary OS, since AX.25 is not supported by > MacOS, and cannot be added either. For MacOS and others you may consider one of the integrated AX.25 stack and apps like JNOS, Wampes or similar. I consider those conceptually a bad thing - but certainly they're easy to setup and consistent across a wide variety of operating systems. 73 de DL5RB op Ralf -- Loc. JN47BS / CQ 14 / ITU 28 / DOK A21