My personal opinion: I don’t think Elecraft will provide any user modification to the computer inside the K4 box (Win-Lin-MAC).
Sent from my iPhone ...nr4c. bill > On May 30, 2019, at 1:46 AM, Jeff Scaparra <j...@scaparra.com> wrote: > > Absolutely and I am very excited to see a top manufacturer giving what > looks like will be first class support for Linux. What I was most excited > to see though was that the radio looked like it might be running a > mainstream Linux distro. My personal opinion is that giving the consumer > the option to have access to that would really open up the possibilities > with this radio (and help many to justify the cost). If my radio can run > all the software I need for all my communications, logging, etc... I don't > have to worry how I have emergency power for the radio AND a laptop or > computer for field day or actual emergencies. I can only have a plan for > 12V emergency power (battery, solar, ...) and I don't need an inverter or > generator or worry about boost/buck converters for my other non 12v > equipment. My only real fear is that before the release Elecraft would lock > that down so that the consumer doesn't have a way to at a minimum unlock > the underlying OS to use in this way. I fully understand that some won't > want to deal with the underlying OS but I also think there are many that > would. External monitors that run off 12 v are also easy found due to the > car market ( > https://www.amazon.com/Monitor-Computer-Display-Security-Speaker/dp/B0779PM23K/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=12v+hdmi+monitor&qid=1559195100&s=gateway&sr=8-8 > ). > > Jeff N5SDR. > >> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 12:33 AM Bill Frantz <fra...@pwpconsult.com> wrote: >> >> I think it was Eric who said, in one of the recorded interviews, >> that the pad controlling the K4 at "Dayton" was running Linux, >> and that any device that could provide a virtual machine that >> could run Linux could run the control software. >> >> Also, Wayne posted that they would never run Windows in the K4. >> And I'll bet they don't have a deal with Apple to run MacOS/iOS. :-) >> >> 73 Bill AE6JV >> >>> On 5/30/19 at 10:07 PM, j...@scaparra.com (Jeff Scaparra) wrote: >>> >>> One thing I >>> noticed is the screen they have hooked up to the K4 looks like it is >>> running ubuntu. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Bill Frantz | "I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn >> up the >> 408-356-8506 | intelligence. There's a knob called >> "brightness", but >> www.pwpconsult.com | it doesn't work. -- Gallagher >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
