[Ham-Linux] Any current Linux Distros for Ham Radio?

[doc at kd4e.com]

Puppy Linux now has a version that is built on code from Ubuntu,
yet it preserves their amazing tiny size and resource needs.

I have run digipup, fldigi, CQRLog, and others -- on older laptops
with limited resources.

There are a bunch of Hams on the Puppy Forum, so no problem with
support there either.

There are many choices out there.  Find one that makes the best
use of your hardware and that you find easy to use, and go for it!

> I am using Ubuntu, and prefer that because there seem to be more hams
>  (and others) using Ubuntu than more specialized distributions, and
> that makes it easier to find solutions to problems. Karmic (10.04)
> finally seems to have a working pulseaudio sound system. They finally
> included jack and the pulse-jack plugin in the main distribution so
> now you can direct audio from most any application into jack and vice
> versa. I really like that because I play with software defined radios
> (softrocks and the like) and use DttSP and jack to process the audio,
> which I also sometimes forward on to fldigi. I use hamlib and xlog
> and a bunch of other ham radio applications with good success as
> well.
>
> 73, Rob, KL7NA
>
> On 06/24/2010 09:39 AM, Dr. Gerald N. Johnson wrote:
>> The ancient digipup seems to work reliably, so I don't see a need
>> to trash it just because its more than a week old. I did find an
>> update to fldigi dated this week. http://www.w1hkj.com/Fldigi.html
>>
>> 73, Jerry, K0CQ


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