re "What Linux does for one think is make you think about what you are doing and keep you from becoming an appliance operator? How many hams really know how to program their 2M talkie?"
Using Linux will not teach you to program your 2M talkie, nor will it teach you how to create applications that run on Linux. If you want to learn to write software, you must crack open a book or three to learn the basic principles, and then roll up your sleeves and build something using what you've learned. MIT has made all of its courseware freely available online via http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html For a solid foundation, start with 6.001: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer- Science/6-001Spring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm One of the authors of the textbook used in this course is WA1NSE: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html 73, Dave, AA6YQ --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IMHO, hams have not said we want "this" distro to support ham radio so we adopt it. > > SuSe, Mandrake, Debian and a couple of others cater to amateur radio. My personal leaning is toward Debian and it WAS the first Linux distro. to try and devote itself to being ham radio friendly. > > The real key to a ham radio applications for Linus is to include all the required libraries (dependencies) with the release of the installation and install the executable and with all dependencies in a specific location. So then you are back to MS...C:\Program Files\PSK31 > > But my Linux computer is shared by my family and I don't want them to have access to PSK31 so I want to put it in > my \USR2\k5yfw\digital\psk3 and You might want to put it in \URS3 \Sal\amateur-radio\digital\psk31. > > What Linux does for one think is make you think about what you are doing and keep you from becoming an appliance operator? How many hams really know how to program their 2M talkie? > > 73, > > Walt/K5YFW
