Re: AX25 and related software's future in Debian

[Damien Gardner Jnr <rendrag@rendrag.net>]

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

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