[Elecraft] Update on a Question About the P3 SVGA and Mac Computers

[Phil Hystad]

Although Raspberry Pi is indeed a Linux system, the cpu is not Intel so any of the software that is available for
Linux must be built from sources on the Raspberry Pi system (unless it is provided by rPI's distro).

Not every ham radio operator is equipped to build large complicated applications from sources.  Even though 
various Linux distros make this easy, it does not mean that everything is easy.  So, to get a package buildable
on Raspberry Pi Linux may require a bit more programming and Linux/Unix/GNU knowledge than typically held
by the everyday ham.  This includes fooling around with the configure script or at worse making source changes
to the software.

Plus, there are some available Linux packages that may require language compilers that are not available on
the Raspberry Pi distro.  

73, phil, K7PEH
- 15 years of Linux development experience
- 30 years of Unix development experience
- 45 years as a professional programmer
- But, I admit to less than 1 year of rpi development experience


On Jul 10, 2014, at 3:27 PM, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:

> I don't know what a MacAir is, I've pretty much managed to avoid the iWorld.  I can tell you about the Raspberry Pi [and others] however.
> 
> Raspberry Pi [and Beagle Bone, and several others] are tiny little processor boards with weird names that run some flavor of LINUX, and thus will run LINUX-based applications, a great number of which speak Internet/Web.  You can do a great deal with them because of that.
> 
> I built a 40-station irrigation controller for my wife using the Hamstack components [hamstack.com] based on a Microchip PIC.  Aside from using their and Microchip C libraries, I had to write all the functional code in the PIC myself.
> 
> The Hamstack guys [who I know quite well] have now added Beagle Bone and maybe Raspberry Pi to their line, which allows you to capitalize on already created applications and modules.
> 
> Hope this helps.  I wouldn't be holding my breath for royalties, however. :-))
> 
> 73,
> 
> Fred K6DGW
> - Northern California Contest Club
> - CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
> - www.cqp.org
> 
> On 7/10/2014 1:15 PM, Dauer, Edward wrote:
> 
>> Right.  For an EE or computer expert, maybe; but not for a Liberal Arts
>> sort of guy.  Even my Internet research about "Raspberry Pi" was
>> entertaining but incomprehensible.  But that aside, does anyone know of a
>> way to feed the P3 output into a server sort of thing and have it come out
>> as something that will fool the MacAir into thinking it's a web site,
>> hence toggleable vis-a-vis the resident logging program?
> 
> 
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