[Elecraft] Has anyone tried UBUNTU (Linux

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2019 01 Aug 16:17 -0500, Steve Boles wrote:
> Thanks so much for the numerous responses.  A month ago a bought a 13" Dell
> with "factory loaded" UBUNTU and have been very pleased with its
> performance.  I'm very new to UBUNTU but have run Puppy in the past and
> have been very pleased with it.  

That is good to hear.

> Two more questions if I may...  Is UBUNTU compatible with the Elecraft
> maintenance software?

Yes, with a caveat.  If your Ubuntu installation is 64 bit, a.k.a.
amd64, then some additional legwork is required to get the 32 bit
utilities running.  I have documented that process here:

https://www.n0nb.us/blog/2016/07/running-electraft-utilities-on-linux-amd64-and-multiarch/

Some of the particulars may be outdated, but as I recall the packages
were still current for Debian 10, a.k.a. Buster.

> And, any thoughts about CQRLOG logging program?

I have been using it for years.  It integrates well with Fldigi, WSJT-X,
eQSL, and Trusted QSL.  However, the current released version does have
a problem with wsjtx.  I have documented that in this Debian bug report:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=932776

which references this thread in the CQRlog forum:

https://www.cqrlog.com/node/2061

HTH,

73, Nate, N0NB

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