[Elecraft] WinXP - SP3 ... too late!

Sat Mar 29 11:15:52 EDT 2014

I'll chime in here.

Linux geek for a greater part of 20 years.  Ran the server backend for an
ISP for 10 of those (and migrated from Solaris to Linux due to cost
concerns, blah blah blah).

Home network is all linux servers, my desktop (which im at now) is linux,
wife's stuff is all Mac.

All of my ham shack PC's run windows.  Although the support for linux in
the "consumer" realm (ie: fldigi, not protocol stuff like AX.25) has gotten
considerably better, its not as mature as Windows.

So rather than fight with Wine and drivers and portaudio and serial
permissions I just bought a cheap windows machine and was done with it.

So I applaud the people who want to run linux for their shack.

Frank
KG6EYC

On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Phil Hystad <phystad at mac.com> wrote:

> Further on this question...
>
> Has anyone tried out the Linux version of the Elecraft utilities on
> Raspberry Pi?  Oh, maybe I can do that if I steal some time from other
> projects.  I have never bothered to even look at these Linux version
> utilities to see what dependencies they might have.
>
> My only use of computers in the ham shack is for running the Elecraft
> utilities which I do on my iMac desktop (currently writing on my Macbook
> Pro laptop).  A full Apple Mac house here.  I did have Windows running on
> an old laptop which I kept for running Eznec only but I have switched over
> from Eznec to NEC4 totally and I am working on doing the graphic work in
> Mathematica -- both of these are on my Mac computers.  I still have that
> old windows laptop but now it is an old Linux laptop that is collecting the
> same amount of dust as it did with windows loaded on it (I like Linux but
> there is nothing I can do on Linux I can't do on my Macs).
>
> 73, phil, K7PEH
>
>
> On Mar 29, 2014, at 7:24 AM, Anthony Marriott <paul.marriott at icloud.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I am very much the same way - I have an iMac and Macbook Air but
> recently built a dual boot Win7/Linux box.  Originally I went for Win7
> since I had had enough of running some Ham aps under VMWare on the mac.
>  Now I find myself mostly in Linux mode for Ham use - I use Elementary OS
> as my Linux "distro" of choice because I can configure it more to look like
> OSX.  Linux has a lot of Ham support, more than OSX probably, and I can
> configure fldigi without issue to operate digital.  I still have not given
> up the mac since I am also a photographer, and Photoshop is not available
> under Linux, so the iMac is still my workhorse photo machine.
> >
> > For an old machine, I'd most certainly try Linux - try eOS, or other
> Ubuntu distro like Mint.
> >
> > Paul
> > AF5BV
> >
> > On Mar 28, 2014, at 9:21 PM, Phil Wheeler <w7ox at socal.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm with Don on this one. I use two Macs, with OS X 10.9.x, for most of
> my work -- but both have Windows 7 installed in dual boot configuration,
> because Windows has better support for some needs -- like ham radio and
> managing my GPS map loads to name two. My workhorse ripping and burning
> machine is a 5-year old Dell running Win 7 (was XP) because I can use very
> fast optical drives with it and I prefer the software on that platform.
>  And my ham shack machine is a $280, 10.1" HP running Win 8.1; it does all
> the Elecraft support quite well, as well as digital modes.
> >>
> >> But I do have a Raspberry Pi running Linux :-)
> >>
> >> 73, Phil w7ox
> >>
> >> On 3/28/14, 7:05 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> >>> I have tried Linux.  It is just fine for those who have computers that
> are not networked to each other and do not need access to files on other
> computers on a network.  Yes, for Linux geeks, it can be made to work, but
> discovering just the right 'tweeks' for Samba can be frustrating.
> >>>
> >>> If all one wants is a computer to do email and surfing the internet,
> Linux is an extremely good no cost solution, but if integration into a
> Windows Network is part of your operation, I suggest that you upgrade to
> Win 7 or Win 8, there are just too many hurdles to leap in that situation
> with Linux.  Besides, most ham applications are Windows based, and several
> do not run well under Wine.  Getting COM port assignments when using Wine
> has been an exercise in frustration for me, most recently with USB
> adapters.  Maybe I am just not "geek enough", but it was frustrating and
> not successful.
> >>>
> >>> Linux may be good (and getting better), but it is not the cure for all
> ills.  As I indicated, it is a good, no cost solution for old Win XP
> computers that will be used primarily as standalone computers for email and
> internet surfing.  For that I like Linux Mint with the Mate desktop - it is
> quite "windows-like" and can be easily used by users who are transitioning
> from Windows.
> >>>
> >>> I have 8 computers plus a file server on my network that talk to each
> other, all running Win 7, but 2 of them dual boot to Linux Mint for those
> occasional excursions for things that do not work on Windows - but those
> are not mainstream items, they are "sideshows". The workbench computer and
> the ham shack computer are the only 2 with that dual boot installation.
> >>>
> >>> 73,
> >>> Don W3FPR
> >>>
> >>> On 3/28/2014 8:59 PM, JohnE wrote:
> >>>> Its just the Universe telling you its time to try Linux....
> >>>>
> >>>> On 03/28/2014 05:27 PM, Edward R Cole wrote:
> >>>>> If you need upgrades to SP3 for win-XP, you may be too late.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
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