I've recently installed Ubuntu 6.06 on an older PC I have in the shack - a P3 500MHz Box with 384MB of ram. This machine is dedicated to Ubuntu. So far, I'm very impressed with what I see. This is by far the cleanest Linux install I've done (I've played with Red Hat, Suse ,and Mandrake previously). I'd encourage anyone who hasn't tried it yet to give it a go. No problems with the install, found all my hardware just fine. I've installed a few additional packages subsequently - primarily the gcc and g++ development tools.
My main machine for running my SDR-1000 is a Dell 2.8GHz P4 with 512MB and Delta44 (Unfortunately awaiting repair after a recent lightning hit that left it d-e-a-d and also took out my router, an ethernet card, a pcmcia ethernet card on a laptop, and blew the fuse in one of my desktop power supplies!). I'm hoping that the imminent split of DSP engine and GUI will ultimately lead to a totally Linux SDR-1000 platform - what's happening on this front - for instance, are there soon to be published APIs for developing a GUI that talks to the DSP? What else is happening? A couple more questions for the Ubuntu gurus... I don't remember being prompted to enter a root password during the install. I'd like to know this or be able to set this (on the assumption that I'll probably need it eventually). How do I do this? Ubuntu tells me there are 130 packages available for update however, the update quit when it got to package #45 - is this simply a dead host somewhere? I've tried kicking this off several times over the weekend and it can't seem to get any further. Pete, N3EVL _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
