From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Damien Gardner Jnr Subject: Re: AX25 and related software's future in Debian Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 08:48:46 +1000 Message-ID: <4FBD694E.3040903@rendrag.net> References: <20120504013200.GB3489@flying-gecko.net> <201205231215.27327.wjl@icecavern.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <201205231215.27327.wjl@icecavern.net> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: "Wesley J. Landaker" Cc: debian-hams@lists.debian.org, Patrick Ouellette , linux-hams@vger.kernel.org On 24/05/2012 4:15 AM, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > About ham radio software in general, I do use a lot of other ham radio > software packaged in Debian. In general I'm surprised that there isn't > more overlap between the ham radio and free/open-source software > communities. - W5OSS While I live and breath Debian, and have spent probably 90% of the time since I was introduced to Debian in 1998, with it on the desktop, my most recent personal machine runs Win 7. I used to have a macbook pro 17" running debian as my 'work' machine, and a little portege running debian as my 'ham machine' when I was out and about.. But now that I'm married with kids, when I finally manage to get out, I don't want to have to make sure batteries are charged, that the latest apt-get upgrade hasn't killed my favourite apps, and that the firmware for my wireless card hasn't been removed from the repository and killed my ability to get on the 'net, or any other mucking about.. - I want to just open up my go-bag, plug in the USB cable to the hub, fire up HRD, and spend my hour chatting to folk on psk31, not messing with my OS :) Cheers, DG -- Damien Gardner Jnr VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust rendrag@rendrag.net - http://www.rendrag.net/ -- We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder