[Xastir] Re: Xastir Digest & Wndows

[Ian Haver]

Hi Again

Just a little snippet.

> Again, I'm glad you've got an operating system that does what you need
> an operating system to do.  Just don't forget that other people have
> other requirements -- the ham that runs xastir under Cygwin may have
> to share a computer with his XYL who uses AOL, for instance, or with
> their children who use educational software designed for the Windows
> platform.  For those people, running under Cygwin allows them to taste
> the wonder of Unix and of xastir, and they should be encouraged, not
> discouraged, to continue to use what works best for them.

I share my machine with the whole family. Linux is excellent at booting the
different OS at computer start time. Not only that the kids prefer Koffice 
now
to M$ Office tools. My machine has Win98, WIN2000Pro and Suse Linux on it. 
Select
which one you want when you turn the machine on. Thats the best way to 
taste Linux.
CYGWIN is not a true representation of Linux. Take a look at www.suse.co.uk 
or www.kde.org.
you will see Linux has come on in leaps and bounds.


I have used Xastir for a while now and got lots of pleasure out of it. The 
early versions
i use to run didnt even talk to the ax25 libraries you had to use a program 
to emeulate a tnc.
This was fantastic, no more X-APRS or WinAPRS. I even wrote a GUI program 
to compliment xastir to handle
the weather information and transmit that in the form of an APRS beacon 
before Xastir had true WX support. MM, still got that somewhere (ha ha ha).

As originator of the Xastir & Windows thread. Lets kill it now before we go 
into a Linux/Windows war.

Saying all that give Linux a try, you dont have to remove windows to 
install Linux, most Linux distros will
resize the windows partition on the fly (Fat,Fat32 NTFS & NTFS5 etc etc) 
and then install linux on the hard drive
with a suitable boot loader for different OS types.


Reagrds

Ian


(I also administer Windows 2000 pro servers, Red Hat servers, SCO servers & 
a large number of Windows based desktops)

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