Too late. The decision's made already: Ubuntu.
73
Frank
AB2KT
Jim Lux wrote:
I'm going to leap right into the middle of a religious war here..
As all the linux-o-philes know, there are probably 200 different distros
out there, each having some unique properties that at least one person
finds useful.
As you move towards more Linux for more SDR, I'd like to throw this idea
into the pot.
Many times, developers choose the distro based on their personal
preferences: they have other stuff that runs on it, they're familiar with
it, they know how to build packages or rpms for it, it happened to be the
first distro they ever installed... And, inasmuch as they are doing their
development as a labor of love, these are perfectly good reasons.
However, if you're looking to create a product with wide applicability,
particularly one that might be interesting to non-developers, you might
want to do a "market survey" to find out which distros are most popular in
ham-dom - among those who are potential users of the radio! (not among
those who might be interested in developing the software)
For instance, if you were to run a survey among the current members of this
list, you'd get statistics on what people who are into tinkering and
experimenting would like. But this is not the actual target audience, is
it? You want to make it easy (plug it in and go) for someone who happens
to be running Linux on their desktop. To that end, I think it is
worthwhile to consider developing the Linux stuff (at least the release
versions) for some fairly mainstream distro (RH, Mandrake, Debian, Fedora,
etc.). Why make it hard for someone who wants to try it out. Yes, you can
generally recompile for your target, but why force someone to make clean;
make, just to try out the sdr software?
From a "demonstration" standpoint a "live-cd" distribution (Knoppix) might
also be good.
James Lux, P.E.
Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group
Flight Communications Systems Section
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena CA 91109
tel: (818)354-2075
fax: (818)393-6875
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