On 3/8/07, W2AGN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Maser wrote: > > Why would anyone say something stupid like "dump Microsoft"? Without > > Microsoft, we'd still be using CPM. I can never understand why people > > are so quick to want to jump from Microsoft. XP has been a wonderful > > operating system. > > > > Bob W6TR > > > Beg to differ. Without Microsoft we would be using Linu8x or Macs or something > else...probably better than the assortment of Windows that have come over the > years. Microsoft appealed to the masses, and had great marketing. They still > do, > witness the mindless lemming rush to Vista.
I believe most guys buy the SDR-1000 to actually operate with it (which mostly just works in Windows) - not to spend endless hours tinkering with and compiling software on Linux. Then there is the problem of which of the multitude of Linux distros to support. Phil N8VB _______________________________________________ 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/
