This is very good news that you can run Irfanview. This is my main "quick" viewer that I have used for many years and find it about the best there is. And if you can actually run Multipsk under Wine, that solves a major problem too.
By now I would have expected someone to have a web site or some other information source to walk hams through this and to show what can be done. 73, Rick, KV9U Jose A. Amador wrote: >Rick, > >I chose since 1998 that BBS's run in Linux. > >I have not made the full switchover myself. > >Call it lazyness to leave what has worked for me, >ignorance of what could be a similar solution.... > >Sadly, linux-hams is quasi dead. It was well alive ten years ago, >and I learned a LOT there. > >On Linux, you can solve a few things with wine. Calc98 works, >also Irfanview does, and MultiPSK complains that it cannot find the >mixer...but works. Video apps do not work so far. I have a half installed >Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. Loading the needed libraries has been a nightmare >with my provider... > >It COULD behave even better with Crossover Office, but never used it. > >VMware so far has proven to be a delay line....used qemu a little, >but need to dig deeper. > >73 de Jose, CO2JA >Linux User 91155 > > >
