[Elecraft] Linux suggestion

[Kevin Cozens]

Paul Saville wrote:
> To the digger who was asking, I had a brain brown-out and deleted your
> message, but you might try Puppy Linux on your older PC

You can get information on a load of different Linux distributions at 
http://distrowatch.org/. FOr the last few years I've been using Ubuntu as it 
does a decent job of detecting hardware and automatically 
installing/configuring the required device drivers. What you could do is to 
boot your machine using a "LiveCD" which will let you run Linux without 
having to install it. Its a quick way to find out whether all of your 
hardware is supported and will let you test your logging and Elecraft 
control software. You may need to "install" (ie. add to the running LiveCD) 
dosemu and/or Wine to run any dos or Windows (respectively) programs to do 
your tests.