From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Wells Subject: Re: Packet Radio Crawlers for Linux? Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:29:33 +1000 Message-ID: <4DFFBBBD.7010702@exemail.com.au> References: <4DFE9DC2.60809@trinnet.net> <1308552302.15520.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4DFEF94B.3010802@exemail.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: "Curt, WE7U" Cc: Gordon JC Pearce , David Ranch , Linux Hams On 21/06/11 02:05, Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Ray Wells wrote: > >> Xastir is probably "newer" than almost any other aprs application, >> being that it is constantly being developed and supported by a very >> active mailing list. It works perfectly. > > Many people see the Xastir versions that come out in official Linux > distributions and assume they are the newest available. Some > distributions are a bit slow at including newer packages for apps. > Sometimes two years or more before they get around to it. From that > viewpoint, everything looks pretty old. > > Curt... One of those Xastir guys. One of the good guys!! Maybe I've been using Debian based systems for too long - about 18 years - so I know the packages are often (usually, always?) not the latest. I do get a bit crabby when someone makes a sweeping statement - it doesn't work - without qualifying the statement. Ray vk2tv