Re: newbie question - hamlib and gMFSK

["Curt, WE7U" <archer@eskimo.com>]

On Sat, 1 May 2004, Martin Ewing wrote:

> Hi.  I'm relatively new to the ham/linux game myself, but I have a
> pretty long experience with hamming and Linux separately.
>
> The general state of Linux stuff for ham radio is primitive, IMO.


> It takes a pretty farsighted
> developer to put in lots of time to make advanced (user friendly, device
> independent, multi-mode) software for Linux when nearly all the
> potential users are on Windows.  So, we have MixW, MultiPSK, etc. for
> Windows and nothing similar AFAIK in Linux.
>
> I wish it were otherwise, and I'm doing my small part.

I take very slight offense to your comments.  ;-)

Have you seen Xastir, which is one of the premier APRS apps, which
runs on multiple OS'es?  Yea, we run on Windows now too, but only
through the Cygwin emulator, so it is really still a Unix app under
the hood.

    http://www.xastir.org

You can compare it to the other APRS apps here:

    http://www.eskimo.com/~archer/aprs_capabilities.html

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