From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hamish Moffatt Subject: Re: Most "HAM" friendly distro ? Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:46:31 +1100 Message-ID: <20060104234631.GA20864@cloud.net.au> References: <9923fd660601041255o4e45fd5dw572a79848c1781ff@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9923fd660601041255o4e45fd5dw572a79848c1781ff@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:55:38PM -0800, Douglas Cole 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. > > So my question is, which distro' would one reccomend to someone who is > used to using a distro' that does not require recompiling the kernel > every time I turn around? > > I was thinking maybe Kubuntu, or one of the Debian based distro's just > for the sake of the ease with which APT makes updating/upgrading, but > since I have not spent enough time with Debian based distro's I am not > sure that is going to fit my needs. How about Debian itself? Ham radio has been in Debian since the early days. Two past project leaders have been hams (Bruce Perens K6BP and Bdale Garbee KB0G). Our standard kernels include all the AX.25 drivers. We have a mailing list debian-hams for discussion. Here's a list of radio packages included in the 3.1 (sarge) release: http://packages.debian.org/stable/hamradio/ Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB