I think this is a great idea and have already started researching to
create a ham type distro, all I lack is time! :) As far as the scsi,
development, ISDN stuff being removed, that's stuff I use! Actually,
most of the standard Slackware distro I use - can't stand RH, so that's
another dilemma right there. It wouldn't be too hard to precompile
kernels for sound modem, etc but then there are hams like me, that
always compile a new kernel, with just the needed modules, etc and
nothing more, even on a brand new install. That would require all the
development stuff to be installed. So, no matter what happens, you end
up with a distro that is pretty much like all the rest. After giving
this alot of thought, it would be easier to dump the current docs,
HAM-Howto and AX25, and write a new set for the current tools, and
specialties like *NOS, and other ham software, etc. How come the docs
are so out of date, and if the maintainer doesn't have the time, why not
pass the tourch?? Better organization of what's already out there would
make it easier for hams new to Linux get a grip with it. Personally, all
this noise of 'if Linux was easier then Windoze' really gets me going.
If you want DOS/Win311Win95/98/NT then run it - if you want Linux then
run it, it's your choice.
73
.mark
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>From: Nagendra, VU2CLN[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 10:55 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Red Hat modules(Dream OS for a Ham)
>
>BTW this distribution war's,
>
>Is there any distribution which is made for Hams ,
>
>i.e. Perfect ham distribution built in ax25 support,custom compiled
>kernel,GUI
>based control panel and interface for command line utils(like xrpm for
>rpm...)
>and all other crap removed like which any ham will never use like
>scsi/ISDN/development/etc support, and all this is just few disks, I think we
>should make use of the Flexibility that Linux gives us insted of crying over
>configuring the system thus converting over-flexibility to simplicity.
>
>This will bring Linux based radio systems upto the win95+AWG leve but with
>the
>same flexibility as before with more people getting on to linux.
>
>I might be thinking of a Dream OS & Distribution for hams, but is there
>anything like this or how about making one ?
>
>----
>Virtually yours,
> Nagendra
>
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>Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 05:09:30AM -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>> >
>> > Problem is I like Red Hat. They have a good product and it's
>> > available very cheap. I do have the latest debion on cd-rom as well. RH
>> > has been working with the guys at GNU and KDE and they have come up with
>>a
>> > really nice GUI Xwindow.
>> >
>> > As I said I don't want to give up RH to keep ax25.
>>
>> Well, suit yourself.
>>
>> I see you post regularly with problems compiling the ax25 utilities.
>> They run out of the box on Debian. If you want to make life hard for
>> yourself I'm not going to stop you Karl!
>>
>> AFAIK, RH had nothing to do with the development of the KDE and
>> their involvement with GNOME was just providing some CVS support
>> (for developing the software). Debian provided GNOME CVS in the past,
>> I don't know why GNOME decided to switch. All those environments
>> are available on Debian too, of course.
>>
>> Hamish
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