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 20:19:51 +0100 Message-ID: <20060107191951.GB756@linux-mips.org> References: <9923fd660601041255o4e45fd5dw572a79848c1781ff@mail.gmail.com> <000b01c6118e$e1b128f0$3849a8c0@lan.w1nr.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000b01c6118e$e1b128f0$3849a8c0@lan.w1nr.net> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Mike McCarthy, W1NR" Cc: 'Douglas Cole' , linux-hams@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 07:27:59PM -0500, Mike McCarthy, W1NR wrote: > I still see SuSE as very ham friendly. The problem with the AX25 drivers is > the 2.6.13 kernel across ALL distros. SuSE 10.0 just happens to have the > broken one and unless the maintainer gets the fixes into the global 2.6.13 > update, all distros using it will remain broken. 10.1 should "hopefully" > fix the problem with the 2.6.15 kernel. > > Since 9.3, SuSE has started removing some software from the CD's. The ham > software was one of the packages they decided to take out. That does not > mean they are not available. Just point an installation source at any of > the mirrors that have the "projects/ham" directory and you get all of the > ham radio packages. If you want java, extra perl libraries and much of what > used to fit on a single DVD but doesn't any more, the ftp mirrors have the > packages available and can be installed and maintained through YaST by > adding installation sources. AX25 is still compiled into the kernel as a > module, so kernel recompilation is not needed. But for how much longer? Part of the proboem is that AX.25 is relativly intrusive protocol. Just enabling it as a module that is never load will increase - the amount of memory for every packet. It's also not bullet- proof but the code is slowly getting there. I can only encourage everybody to contribute again. There are man drivers waiting to be written, many bug waiting to be fixed, many features waiting to be implemented. Ralf