[Elecraft] Ham Radio SW for the Mac Qs

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 05:31:10PM -0600, Rod N0RC wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> 2) The OS Core of OSX is of course BSD Unix; Has anybody tried running
> available Unix based radio SW on OSX?

I have, to date, not been able to run any of the ham radio software for "unix"
on my BSD systems -- I've looked mostly at PSK-31 software myself.  The main
reason is that while I'm a BSD bigot, the lion's share of those who write
"unix" ham software are linux bigots --- and they are not, as far as I can
tell, interested in making *portable* code, just code that works.  BSD and
Linux differ enough at the low level interfaces (sound card, serial ports)
that it takes a little doing to get the code so that it doesn't make
assumptions about the system you're on, and take account of the differences.

You could, with enough programming background and time, hack them up to work
on BSD, but it is unlikely that many of the packages will compile and link
"out of the box."  The good news is that they're all open source, so you
could, if so inclined, hack on them.

I've heard gripes from folks in other forums that although you might feed back
your hackage to the maintainers of the packages, odds are good that the next
release will break them all again.

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