RF Podcast EP 49 Powerful Linux

Resonant Frequency – Resonant Frequency: The Amateur Radio Podcast

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RF Podcast EP 49 Powerful Linux

• Mobile Episode
• Intro
• Welcome
• Visit the website www.rfpodcast.info
• Donations
• Bridgecom Systems (DMR Radios and Hotspots)
• Patreon "Become a Patron Today!"
• By Me A Coffee (Tip Jar)
• PayPal (Our old faithful donation spot)
• No feedback this time
• Topic more Linux
  • Linux makes sense
  • It is not hard to work with
  • Has more than one Great Desktop
  • Different flavors of Linux are called Distributions
  • The current focus is to make it more desktop friendly
• Why
  • You don't always want to have your ham stuff on your everyday equipment
  • Makes older computers run great
  • Can be run from a thumb drive
  • Live CD's
• Freedom
  • Free as in money
  • Open source
  • The other free
  • Modify it if you want
  • Make it yours
  • Share it with your friends
  • If I put it on my wife's machine she wouldn't know the difference
• Best Distributions
  • Linux Mint (Debian Based)
  • Ubuntu (Debian Based)
  • Fedora ( Red Hat Based)
  • Crunch Bang (Now defunct)
• Probably Not for the Novice
  • Debian but has a huge Amateur Radio Repo
  • Gentoo
  • Arch
• Read about other Distros and see there top ten list at Distrowatch
• Amateur Radio
  • All the software is in one place
  • lots of software in the repositories
    • Rig Control
    • Packet
    • Logging
    • Digital Modes software
    • CW Trainers
    • Satellite Software
    • DX Cluster
  • Did an interview with the writer of FLdigi once
  • Free Soft Ware like FlDigi Linux and Windows
  • CQRlog
  • XDX
  • Drats
    • Feature Rich D-Star Data
• Richards Story Time
  • Crunch Bang Linux
  • on a 12 year old laptop
  • A bunch of computer stuff
• Use Linux Mint and take a test drive
• I hate Windows
• Started on Windows 2.0 before that I was a DOS guy
• Check out the Gal in the Heil headset
• SEND ME YOUR FEEDBACK!
• Brad Sucks Rocks

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