[Ham-Linux] Which Distro/Apps/Apps development software to use?

[Tate - KA7O]

Another vote for Fedora (currently at 10, with 11 in Alpha release).

What with the Amateur Radio Special Interest Group now part of the 
Fedora team, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/AmateurRadio and the 
subsequent explosion of software available in the main line 
repositories, coupled with the very rapid release cycles - Fedora is on 
the 'cutting edge' of Linux development, as well as Ham Radio software.

Check the packages list 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/AmateurRadio/Packages I think you'll 
find pretty much everything you're wanting to do listed there.

Plus Fedora does the desktop, networking (wifi) and server roles quite 
nicely.

73

Stephen Farthing wrote:
> Hi Guys.
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> 
> I have just finished putting together a computer for the shack. It is a 
> dual core AMD something or other with 1Gbyte of RAM and 250 GByte ofSata 
> HDD. I also have a soundblaster USB external sound “card” I want to use 
> as well. The mother board has onboard everything else I think I need, 
> and until the Gods of freecycle smile on me I’ll be using an old SVSG 
> CRT Old School monitor.  Also it has many, many USB ports and one serial 
> port.
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> I am keen to work towards a “Linux only” shack system because I feel 
> that Linux is more in keeping with the spirit of ham Radio than Windows 
> which I have to use professionally as well as an OS/X Mac. I am 
> reasonably computer proficient and can work my way around shell scripts 
> and C Programs as well as COBOL and a load of other old skool languages. 
> (and no I don’t want a punch card reader either!). I am also learning my 
> way around Ruby and Joomla for what it’s worth and C# under Vista.
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> The sorts of things I want to do are :-
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> Rig control – FT817, TS 570, Elecraft K2
> 
> Digital and weak signal modes – WSPR, PSK, QRSS, Morse. RTTY
> 
> SDR – I have a Softrock 9. Is there a linux equivalent of Power SDR?
> 
> Test equipment  - Probably be building a VNA to Toms design in QEX, use 
> of the sound card as an AF generator and component tester,
> 
> AVR programming (probably using the Adruino board and Wiring which I 
> believe runs under Linux
> 
> Spice circuit simulation
> 
> Development of bespoke applications to run under, I guess, Gnome and/or 
> KDE in a high level language (e.g. C, Ruby)
> 
> Small scale web site development to document the above and act as a “Lab 
> Notebook”
> 
> Logging
> 
> Connect to the internet via wifi
> 
> Anything else you guys can come up with..
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> So the questions are :-
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> What distro should I use?
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> What applications should I use?
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> Is there a decent Applications Development environment that I can use to 
> develop GUI applications in either C or Ruby (or something similar, but 
> please, please, not assembler as I am not clever enough)
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> Sorry about the bandwidth – but I am sure someone out has figured it all 
> out before hand.
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> 72 de Steve G0XAR
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