On 08/24/2012 06:44 AM, Paul and Sue Huff wrote:
> BTW, I know that Linux is a popular operating system for ham radio these days
> but I don't really know anything about it.  I can certainly try to learn,
> however the computer has other uses in the family and so I would need to be 
> able
> to easily switch it back into it's "standard" manufacturers configuration for 
> my
> wife who is even less techie than I am.
You can grab a live image, put it on a USB stick and boot from there.
This way you can try it out without installing it on your hard drive.
You can even keep running it this way permanently but it would run
a bit slower than from hard drive.

The two most common distros are Fedora and Ubuntu. Info
on the live images can be found from:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Installation_Quick_Start_Guide/index.html#Introduction
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/try-ubuntu-before-you-install

Ubuntu might be a bit user friendlier but Fedora is certainly more 
customizable. I believe both include hamlib that supports K2, K3/KX3 etc.

Jussi Eloranta (AA6KJ)

ps. Fedora ham radio guide is at: 
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/Amateur_Radio_Guide/index.html
 
but it is missing important things like cqrlog (which I use with my K3; 
see www.cqrlog.com). There is also a short intro for ubuntu for hams at 
http://www.arrl.org/ubuntu-linux-for-hams. Also a ham oriented spin off 
of ubuntu is available: 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kb1oiq-andysham/; you might be able to 
run this off of a usb stick too.



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