Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros

2006-04-23 Thread Philip M. Lanese
Me TOO! so I downloaded it to my server for a try at a LAN install. Phil, K3IB - Original Message - From: "Robert McGwier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros > No, but you can if you want to. I really like Ubunto and I do like Free > a

Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros

2006-04-23 Thread Robert McGwier
No, but you can if you want to. I really like Ubunto and I do like Free as in Beer and Air both. Bob Philip M. Lanese wrote: Does this mean I should deep6 SUSE? Phil, K3IB - Original Message - -- AMSAT VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP/AMQRP, QRP

Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros

2006-04-21 Thread Eric Ellison
for early adopters. Thanks Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert McGwier Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros The only enforcement will be &quo

Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros

2006-04-21 Thread lloen
> Does this mean I should deep6 SUSE? > > Phil, K3IB > How much and what kind of disruption would it be for you? If you're just fooling around, then the answer appears obvious. But, if you're asking, I'm assuming you (like I) have some important non-Flex-Radio, non-SDR uses of the box. You can

Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros

2006-04-21 Thread Philip M. Lanese
Does this mean I should deep6 SUSE? Phil, K3IB - Original Message - From: "Robert McGwier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Frank Brickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: ; "Jim Lux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 11:23 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros

2006-04-21 Thread Jim Lux
At 10:10 AM 4/21/2006, Frank Brickle wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (If you don't plan to really "enforce it" but > merely say that's what we'll officially support, then there is no > decision, really, just a preferred pathway, which is much different). That's all it ever meant. I don't see

Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros

2006-04-21 Thread KD5NWA
As the duck in Babe got told "That is just the way things are". Of course he had a different opinion on the subject. One distribution has to be chosen as the supported distribution. Not everybody will be happy no matter which one you choose. Not that it matters much but I installed Ubuntu in th

Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros

2006-04-21 Thread Dan Babcock
In my haste to finish the previous post, I neglected to mention: = 8) Ubuntu is usable out of the box as a "live distro." = 9) Ubuntu is free (as in beer). There is no extra cost Enterprise additi= on. What you see is what you get. = = 73, = Dan N4XWE = = --

Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros

2006-04-21 Thread Frank Brickle
Lars E. Pettersson wrote: I will try to make a spec-file and rpm for Fedora, probably usable on the other rpm-specific distros. Mainly for my own use, but I imagine that others could be interested in it also. Lars, that would be very useful for everybody. Thank you. One of the things I hope w

Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros

2006-04-21 Thread Dan Babcock
All, = I cannot help but chuckle when I see normally rational people become total= ly irrational over Linux distributions. The main reasons that ubuntu was s= elected as the favored distribution for DttSP and are listed below. = 1) There are ubuntu supported packages for all of the dep

Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros

2006-04-21 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 04/21/2006 04:18 PM, Jim Lux wrote: > Many times, developers choose the distro based on their personal > preferences: they have other stuff that runs on it, they're familiar with > it, they know how to build packages or rpms for it, it happened to be the > first distro they ever installed...

Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros

2006-04-21 Thread Frank Brickle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (If you don't plan to really "enforce it" but > merely say that's what we'll officially support, then there is no > decision, really, just a preferred pathway, which is much different). That's all it ever meant. I don't see why this discussion is even taking place.

Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros

2006-04-21 Thread Frank Brickle
Jim Lux wrote: Ah, yes.. but, then, are all Linux users of the SDR1000 going to be building gnuradio from scratch? No, but it's a good standard of comparison. Try it sometime on a different distro. This goes back to choosing a target distro based on the developers' preference or the (poten

Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros

2006-04-21 Thread Robert McGwier
The only enforcement will be "This is where we develop and run it. Any problems running it on XYZ SlackDebSUSE BOMB distro will be worked out by you and not us". We want to distribute a live CD with the running code on it. That Live CD will be Ubunto. Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Too l

Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros

2006-04-21 Thread Robert McGwier
My only point was that with Ubunto I was able to find already built binaries for everything one needed to build GnuRadio with the exception of the latest changes (in which we need PortAudio V19). Some of the stuff is just beyond painful to build (and set the dozens of configuration switches c

Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros

2006-04-21 Thread Jim Lux
At 08:23 AM 4/21/2006, Robert McGwier wrote: Jim: Consider Ubunto to be "Debian on steroids". It is built like on top of Debian as Mandrake used to be on top of Red Hat. Ubunto makes a fantastic live CD for this and I've not found anyone yet that had a major problem installing and running U

Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros

2006-04-21 Thread lloen
> Too late. The decision's made already: Ubuntu. > Good luck enforcing it. (If you don't plan to really "enforce it" but merely say that's what we'll officially support, then there is no decision, really, just a preferred pathway, which is much different). My preferred mode, when I get to this,

Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros

2006-04-21 Thread Robert McGwier
Jim: Consider Ubunto to be "Debian on steroids". It is built like on top of Debian as Mandrake used to be on top of Red Hat. Ubunto makes a fantastic live CD for this and I've not found anyone yet that had a major problem installing and running Ubunto. For example, there is almost nothing

Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros

2006-04-21 Thread Frank Brickle
John Melton wrote: I installed Ubuntu on one of my machines (only requires 1 CD) and got very frustrated when it came to getting the development environment setup. AFAICT there is no problem if the base installation is filled out using Synaptic. That would also be the case for DttSP distrib

Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros

2006-04-21 Thread John Melton
Jim Lux wrote: > I'm going to leap right into the middle of a religious war here.. I totally agree with Jim's ideas here and add my own thoughts. Currently, there is not a repository of binary images for the DttSP code and it's dependencies. It requires the user to download all the source code a

Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros

2006-04-21 Thread KD5NWA
Last night for the fun of it I installed Ubuntu and TeamSpeak an hour before the meeting, it took 22 minutes to do a network install of Ubuntu, actually about 15 minutes but I stepped away a couple of times and it just sat there waiting on me to make a decision. TeamSpeak worked fine after figu

Re: [Flexradio] Linux distros

2006-04-21 Thread Frank Brickle
Too late. The decision's made already: Ubuntu. 73 Frank AB2KT Jim Lux wrote: I'm going to leap right into the middle of a religious war here.. As all the linux-o-philes know, there are probably 200 different distros out there, each having some unique properties that at least one person finds

[Flexradio] Linux distros

2006-04-21 Thread Jim Lux
I'm going to leap right into the middle of a religious war here.. As all the linux-o-philes know, there are probably 200 different distros out there, each having some unique properties that at least one person finds useful. As you move towards more Linux for more SDR, I'd like to throw this i