[Elecraft] Firmware upgrades using Ubuntu 12.04

[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft]

Folks - Time to end this thread. Its drifting way OT. Please avoid this 
level of Ot discussion in the future by taking the thread off list after 
a few posts.

73,

Eric
Elecraft List Moderator ---
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On 7/10/2012 6:23 PM, Jim Lowman wrote:
> Okay, I said that I'd stop, but...
>
> I have been in software development since before the days of DOS. For fun,
> I took a five-course certification in Unix/Linux systems at the local UC
> campus.
>
> It was fun to watch these younger guys struggle, after the instructor told
> everyone on the first day of the first class to shell-out to the command
> line
> and stay there.  Most of them had never seen a command line.
>
> 72/73 de Jim - AD6CW
>
> On 7/10/2012 4:37 PM, Alan Jump wrote:
>> All three can do some serious number-crunching. But Linux, especially in
>> the command-line mode, is best described as "user-antagonistic". I
>> happen to like command-line operation for certain tasks; it's actually
>> faster than waiting for a graphic environment to open, especially if I'm
>> doing something like network setups or troubleshooting. And I've been
>> doing it long enough that I can (and probably have) worked through
>> network problems in my sleep. Others aren't as comfortable typing in
>> long, arcane strings of commands, options and arguments. For them, there
>> are graphics-oriented packages that do the same job.
>>
>> We now return to our regularly-scheduled forum, already in progress...
>> --
>> 73 de N5ILN/6
>> Alan
>>
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