[Elecraft] K3: Using Linux - OT

[Mike Rhodes]

   Ok, I am not a Unix/Linux user. Years ago I did a little C 
programming on a real-time Unix box but have forgotten way more than I 
learned about that system (and C).
   However, I have to ask the question - what is the point of getting 
away from "windoze" by going to a Linux box and then immediately 
slapping a fully licensed copy of "Windoze", running under an emulator, 
on that Linux box. It just seems not only counter-intuitive but 
counter-productive. Since the majority of the apps that I wish to run 
are strictly Windows based, it just seems to make more sense to run the 
real thing natively. If the intent is to not add more to the Gates 
billions then you have defeated that by running under an emulator.

Mike / W8DN

On 7/31/2016 10:39 AM, Matt Zilmer wrote:
> All the Elecraft utilities I use work fine on Wine, under Ubuntu 
> 16.04.  Using Wine dodges the multiarch requirement, and it seems 100% 
> compatible with all Windoze API calls the utilities make.  If you 
> decide to go this way, you'll have to make a symlink between 
> /dev/tty<whatever> to COM1 in dos_devices.  If your serial port under 
> Linux is /dev/ttyUSB0, in a terminal type
>
>     ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1
>
> [Also, see 
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/685985/symbolic-link-between-usb-and-com-port].
>
> The Linux native utilities are ported from Win32 to the Linux 32-bit API.
>
> 73,
>
> matt W6NIA
>
>
> On 7/31/2016 4:01 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
>> * On 2016 30 Jul 20:39 -0500, Bill wrote:
>>> I am only interested in how well the Elecraft provided software 
>>> under Linux
>>> works? I do not use any third party stuff at all. Is it as easy and 
>>> straight
>>> forward as their Windows software?
>>>
>>> K3 Utility, KPA Utility, etc.
>> Be aware that the Elecraft utilities are only available in 32 bit
>> versions at this time.  If you use a distribution that allows
>> 'multiarch', and Mint should being a Debian derivative, you will need
>> i386 architecture enabled if your base architecture is amd64. Ubuntu,
>> and probably Mint, have this enabled on amd64 installations. You will
>> probably have to manually install the i386 versions of some libraries.
>>
>> It sounds like more of a hassle than it really is.
>>
>> 73, Nate
>>
>