No, no, no. Please stop trying to twist what's being said. Once again, in clear, plain, simple words:
You will *not* have to install LInux to continue running PowerSDR. PowerSDR will continue to be supported under Windows as long as there's support from Microsoft for Windows. What *will* happen is this. Past a certain point, functionality of PowerSDR as currently constituted will not expand further. That PowerSDR will continue to be supported but it will not enjoy significant enhancements. Major enhancements will require different OS support. Nevertheless, thanks to virtualization, both the old (PowerSDR/Windows) and the new (the Virtual Radio system) will be able to coexist and interoperate on a single (multicore) machine. You are not up to date regarding efficiency of virtualization, either. What part of this are you having trouble understanding? On second thought, don't bother answering. I my daily minimum dose of trolling on the political blogs. 73 Frank AB2KT On Dec 26, 2007 4:44 PM, Peter G. Viscarola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you had written: > > > > "So, in nice, clear, simple to understand terms what I hear you guys > saying > > is: The new stuff is going use Linux, but that with virtualization > we'll be > > able to run Windows apps on that same Linux box." > > > > You would have been 100% correct. > > I think that's extremely unfortunate for several reasons: > > a) PowerSDR users will be have to learn how to install, manage, and use > a new operating system; > > b) The virtualization solutions that are available today for *all* the > major Linux distros that I have experience with (SUSE, RHEL, and > XENSource) are slow (even with paravirtualized drivers), their > functionality is poor, and they're really no substitute for running > Windows on a machine. > > c) Devices that are intended for use solely with Windows and that > require drivers will be difficult to support. > > Given that the vast majority of Flexradio users today are Windows users > and that the vast majority of ham radio software runs on Windows, > shouldn't FlexRadio facilitate these users and allow the concurrent use > of these applications without the gymnastics associated with > virtualization? As opposed to asking the user-base to adopt a new > operating system just to use their radios? > > I can't comment on technical issues related to signal processing -- If > the experts say this is more convenient to implement on Linux than on > Windows then I believe them -- but this doesn't seem to me to be a very > good PRODUCT decision. > > de Peter K1PGV > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20071226/31a44271/attachment.html _______________________________________________ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
