Hi Gareth I have had some good success running decoding s/w under both wine and an XP VM within Ubuntu.
Not all software works (the dreaded ROS dies under wine) but it's never decoded anything for me under Windoze! I had a few issues with PTT control, but to be fair I had those issues with native linux apps such as fldigi. I think if I could do it all again, I would probably go for a dual-boot install. There are so many factors that affect successful operation in digi modes, that it would sometime be nice to get it working in a native environment first, rather than pondering whether issues are due to o/s or vm compatibility. Cheers Mike G4TVP --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "garethhowell" <m5...@...> wrote: > > I have a whole bunch of digital mode software, beacon monitors, log book, > station monitor, radio control etc.etc. Currently all of it runs under > Windows XP on my laptop. > > For my next ham related PC purchase I am considering having Ubuntu as the > base Linux distro and then running either: > 1. a virtualised copy of the existing XP environment in a VM, or > 2. running the individual apps under WINE. > > My concern is the ability of a VM or WINE to handle the serial ports and > audio board properly. > > Does anybody have any practical experience of either of these options, or > maybe even further options? > > Gareth - M5KVK >
