Most useful/easy flavour of Linux for Ham Radio Applications

Most useful/easy flavour of Linux for Ham Radio Applications

[John Agar]

Hello all,

It's been a long time since I checked in to this group.

Have been unable to play with Linux for some time.
As a result I'm way behind.

Please - opinions on which is the best flavour of Linux for
ham radio applications. Ease of configuration(good documentation)
is my major concern.

Thank you.

73 de John Agar
VE4EI

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Re: Most useful/easy flavour of Linux for Ham Radio Applications

[Matti Aarnio]

On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 04:22:06PM -0400, John Agar wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> It's been a long time since I checked in to this group.
> 
> Have been unable to play with Linux for some time.
> As a result I'm way behind.
> 
> Please - opinions on which is the best flavour of Linux for
> ham radio applications. Ease of configuration(good documentation)
> is my major concern.

The documentation is rather weak whatever you take..
(Or rather, there are lots of tiny bits of it scattered all around..)

"Vendors" that supply AX.25 in binary delivered kernel are
in my quick survey:
  - Debian (4.0)
  - SuSE (9.x, probably same with 10.x)

Vendors that don't supply:
  - Redhat / Fedora

If you don't need AX.25, that is meaningless difference.
(It is meaningfull when you want to make RF-to-net APRS igate.)

For gmfsk et.al. HF data mode programs about any Linux with
support for your audio hardware is a good choice.

Again Debian is likely your best choice for a system that has
them all available pre-compiled.

There are tons and tons of other Linux distributions, like
various flavours of Ubuntu, which is Debian derivative.
But do they have HAM-suites ? That I don't know.

> Thank you.
> 
> 73 de John Agar
> VE4EI

73 de Matti, OH2MQK

Re: Most useful/easy flavour of Linux for Ham Radio Applications

[Bob Nielsen]

On May 26, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Matti Aarnio wrote:

>
> There are tons and tons of other Linux distributions, like
> various flavours of Ubuntu, which is Debian derivative.
> But do they have HAM-suites ? That I don't know.
>

Ubuntu includes kernels with AX.25, mkiss, etc. as modules, as well  
as a large number of ham radio packages (probably the same ones as  
Debian itself).

73 - Bob, N7XY

Re: Most useful/easy flavour of Linux for Ham Radio Applications

[jarmo]

Matti Aarnio kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika sunnuntai, 27. toukokuuta 2007 
00:55):

> "Vendors" that supply AX.25 in binary delivered kernel are
> in my quick survey:
>   - Debian (4.0)
>   - SuSE (9.x, probably same with 10.x)

Mandriva does it too...

But look at

http://radio.linux.org.au/
There you can find bunch of hamradio related stuff

Jarmo
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Re: Most useful/easy flavour of Linux for Ham Radio Applications

[Curt Mills]

On Sun, 27 May 2007, Matti Aarnio wrote:

> "Vendors" that supply AX.25 in binary delivered kernel are
> in my quick survey:
>   - Debian (4.0)
>   - SuSE (9.x, probably same with 10.x)
> 
> Vendors that don't supply:
>   - Redhat / Fedora
> 
> If you don't need AX.25, that is meaningless difference.
> (It is meaningfull when you want to make RF-to-net APRS igate.)

But... You can still do an APRS igate without having AX.25 in the
kernel.  Xastir can do it via a Serial TNC or a Serial KISS TNC
interface.

Where the AX.25 interface comes in really handy is when you want to
connect multiple pieces of software to the same TNC, or of course
when you want to do TCP/IP networking or some other networking
protocol over RF.

-- 
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Re: Most useful/easy flavour of Linux for Ham Radio Applications

[Larry Holden]

John Agar wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> It's been a long time since I checked in to this group.
>
> Have been unable to play with Linux for some time.
> As a result I'm way behind.
>
> Please - opinions on which is the best flavour of Linux for
> ham radio applications. Ease of configuration(good documentation)
> is my major concern.
>
> Thank you.
>
> 73 de John Agar
> VE4EI
>
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>   

I use Slackware and compile my own packages with checkinstall. 
Everything  seems to work great! The list is as follows: GMFsk, Kpsk, 
TWpsk, HF rtty, Qgrid, Gsat, Xlog, Grig, predict, Qsstv, TWclock, 
Xastir, Xcall. Slackware is one of oldest around with plenty of 
documentation.  Hamshack live cd is a good way to try it. Go to 
http://hamshack-hack.sourceforge.net/.

73, KC5KLM

Re: Most useful/easy flavour of Linux for Ham Radio Applications

[w9ya]

> John Agar wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> It's been a long time since I checked in to this group.
>>
>> Have been unable to play with Linux for some time.
>> As a result I'm way behind.
>>
>> Please - opinions on which is the best flavour of Linux for
>> ham radio applications. Ease of configuration(good documentation) is
>> my major concern.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> 73 de John Agar
>> VE4EI
>>
>> No virus found in this outgoing message.
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>> 24/05/2007 4:01 PM
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>
> I use Slackware and compile my own packages with checkinstall.
> Everything  seems to work great! The list is as follows: GMFsk, Kpsk,
> TWpsk, HF rtty, Qgrid, Gsat, Xlog, Grig, predict, Qsstv, TWclock,
> Xastir, Xcall. Slackware is one of oldest around with plenty of
> documentation.  Hamshack live cd is a good way to try it. Go to
> http://hamshack-hack.sourceforge.net/.
>
> 73, KC5KLM
> -

Yeah, I do something similar with archlinux. (Which is sort of a cousin to
slackware.)

Vy 73;

Bob
w9ya


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Re: Most useful/easy flavour of Linux for Ham Radio Applications

[Mike McCarthy, W1NR]

John Agar wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> It's been a long time since I checked in to this group.
> 
> Have been unable to play with Linux for some time.
> As a result I'm way behind.
> 
> Please - opinions on which is the best flavour of Linux for
> ham radio applications. Ease of configuration(good documentation)
> is my major concern.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 73 de John Agar
> VE4EI

See http://www.linux-ax25.org/wiki/Distributions for some descriptions
of the various distributions.

Personally, I use SUSE because of the superior installation, packaging
and management tools.  I have had a lot of issues with Ubuntu and
Debian.  Forget about Fedora unless you want to build your own kernel
and packages.

Mike, W1NR

SUSE HAM packages mirrored at http://ftp.w1nr.net/

Re: Most useful/easy flavour of Linux for Ham Radio Applications

[Adam Vazquez Kb2Jpd]

There are also pre-designed Live-CDs  available for station and
contest use . http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ham+radio+linux+live+cd&btnG=Google+Search
You should check out QST for some other distros

RE: Most useful/easy flavour of Linux for Ham Radio Applications

[John Agar]

I asked this question a couple of weeks ago.

I should have answered to your responses ASAP. Sorry!

The response was wonderful. Thank you. It was way beyond my expectations.

73

John Agar
VE4EI

-----Original Message-----
From: John Agar [mailto:dukewas3@shaw.ca] 
Sent: May 26, 2007 4:22 PM
To: 'linux-hams@vger.kernel.org'
Subject: Most useful/easy flavour of Linux for Ham Radio Applications

Hello all,

It's been a long time since I checked in to this group.

Have been unable to play with Linux for some time.
As a result I'm way behind.

Please - opinions on which is the best flavour of Linux for
ham radio applications. Ease of configuration(good documentation)
is my major concern.

Thank you.

73 de John Agar
VE4EI

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