From: Tomi Manninen (kdurxi@mailit.tunk.net)
Date: Sun Sep 30 2001 - 00:15:14 EEST
On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Hans-Peter Zorn wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 05:10:43PM +0100, Ken Adams wrote:
> > What distro every one thinks is best to use for an Amateur machine.
> >
> For newbies: SuSE Pro (7.3 coming soon)
> For everyone else: Debian
>
> Other distros do not support hamradio at all, SuSE actually invests
> money or at least time into hamradio development, which should be
> honored imho. One exception seems to be Slackware which has
> hamradio-packages too.
Slightly too strongly put I think.
SuSE really does invest in supporting hams, that is true. It's great thing
indeed!
Debian was, if I have understood correctly, created by a ham. The debian
ham community is very strong and a lot of ham related packages exist for
it.
Red Hat supports ham radio officially to the point of offering ax25
lib/tools/apps/node packages officially on their Power Tools CD. Also for
some reason it seems that quite a lot of new ham software appears as Red
Hat RPMs by the author (also maybe as as DEBs) and then others convert the
binaries to other distributions. Or maybe it's just me. :-)
I don't know about the other distributions. Fortunately in Linux world
there is always the "compile from source" option. So if you are not a
complete newbie, any modern distribution should be ok. And this list is
always a place to ask if something goes wrong...
> SuSE and Debian have dedicated mailing lists for hams.
True.
> hp, dg4iad (using debian sid)
Tomi, oh2bns, a Red Hat user since Picasso (3.0.3). :-)
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