YES! Look at the Tivo. Standalone box. Completely plug & play. Linux on the inside. Output to standard audio and video jacks. Network GUI. Near 0 maintenance. "It Just Works"
For the SDR, a separate transmit/rf module should be available but I would expect a lot of these to end up being remote receivers controlled over and feeding IF to the internet. I think investing a lot of time and hard work on something controlled by the whims of an OS company that is actively trying to limit choices and lock in it's customers is false economy. Easy at first and expensive/painful later. Linux (and PowerSDR if I am not mistaken) belong to the community. The freedom to improve/innovate is a VERY important thing. Flex should be commended for NOT trying to lock in it's customers with a proprietary console like another sdr receiver company does. It helps Flex and it helps us. I think their success indicates that it was a good business decision. Jeff/KA5MIR On Wednesday 03 January 2007 10:38, Bob McGwier wrote: > User space drivers, behind Vista layers and layers of bulk and > protection of digital media rights, is possible. It is just awful so > why would we do it? I have a strong opinion. It is my strongest > possible opinion that for the future, Flex should build stand alone > radios running Linux on the computer inside the box and then we can > support the control/GUI on ALL machines as add ons to the stand alone > radio which more capability, etc. The radio performance will then not > be harmed by XP, Vista, 2000, Windows 98 or even ME and 95. We can > have a GUI on ALL of them. This to me is the best of all possible > worlds. >... > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list [email protected] 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/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
