[Elecraft] ANN: KComm 1.1 released

[Geoffrey Downs]

About a week ago I had the opportunity to play for a short time with an Asus 
EEE PC 4G on which the operating system had been changed to xubuntu 
(relatively easy to do I'm told) and the screen font size made smaller so 
that more would fit on the screen. It seemed to be an improvement on the OS 
supplied (xandros?) and might help with KComm, although I am not familiar 
with that program. However, Julian is probably right that the successor EEE 
PC900 which has just been released in the UK might be better as the screen 
is quite a bit bigger, without increasing the size of the machine itself. 
Also it has more memory - 20Gb for the Linux version. However it does cost a 
bit more.

73 to all

Geoff
G3UCK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "G4ILO" <julian.g4ilo at gmail.com>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] ANN: KComm 1.1 released


>
> KComm wasn't written with the Eee PC specifically in mind. With the window
> shrunk to show just the logging part it will fit on the Eee's screen, but
> with it opened up to show the CW/Data TX and RX windows it's just a bit 
> too
> long. I tried to make it fit, but I couldn't without compromising 
> usability
> on a regular screen. I think it will be OK on the newer Eees that have a
> bigger screen.
>
> I could answer the question raised about how to install software on Linux
> but it is really off-topic for this reflector. There is a low-traffic Asus
> Eee PC Ham Radio forum at http://www.zerobeat.net/smf/index.php?board=24.0
> which would really be a better place. I will be happy to give some advice
> there if anyone asks.
>
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