Re: ham radio RPMs for SUSE [was: Re: AX-25 software that works on Fedora Core 4?]

["Douglas Cole" <n7bfs@qwest.net>]

On Sunday 21 August 2005 10:37, Robert Steinhäußer wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Douglas Cole wrote:
> > I also noticed that version 10 seems to be ignoring amateur radio as
> > well, and was wondering if anyone on the list knows why SuSE dropped the
> > "Ham Radio" package group?
>
> Joerg Reuter, DL1BKE <jreuter@suse.de> gave some information about the ham
> radio packages in the SUSE LINUX distribution on the (German) "suse-ham"
> mailing list. You can find his original message in the archives or ask me;
> I can send you a copy. Here is a rough translation from German.
>
> You can find RPMs for SUSE 9.3 here:
>
> 	ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/ham/9.3-i386
>
> (or a SUSE mirror of your choice). You can add this directory as an
> installation source (command line: "yast install_source") and then install
> using YaST.
>
> Joerg can only update these packages in his spare time. He has no time for
> testing and calls them "highly inofficial".
>
> The main reason for no longer including ham radio programs in the
> distribution is that many of these programs aren't under active development
> and it is getting more and more difficult to let them work under a new
> distribution. Package maintanance is simply costing too much effort, and
> many programs only compile on the PC architecture and thus require even
> more effort from Joerg as packager and from the autobuild team.
> Additionally, the potential costs for quick and effective handling of
> security problems are quite high.
>
> Joerg also sees an advantage for himself by continuing these packages on
> his own: During the last weeks of a new release's beta phase he only has to
> check once that these packages compile -- and no longer (in extreme cases)
> weekly, every time somebody checks in a new compiler, GLIBC, QT oder KDE
> update.
>
> 73, Robert DL1NC/N9KBK

Thanks for the reply Robert, sorry for taking so long to respond, email is 
tough for me sometimes..

I kind of figured this was the reason they were dropped, it still would be 
nice to go back to the "good old days" where I got 7 disc's when I payed for 
SuSE, I would actually prefer that, and still plan on paying them, as I don't 
like to freeload for such a solid distro'. 
I do want to thank all those Linux Hams on this list who do contribute to us 
end users who can't seem to figure out how to build programs ourselves, yet 
still enjoy using Linux on a daily basis (my pc's at home don't do windows).
I have had more fun with computing, and Amateur radio since I have been using 
Linux then when I suffered through being a Windows user, so hats off to all 
you guys who share your fun with us!

73
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