[Xastir] Packet Radio Crawlers for Linux?
Bob Nielsen
n7xy at clearwire.net
Mon Jun 20 17:50:38 EDT 2011
On Jun 20, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Ray Wells wrote:
> On 21/06/11 02:05, Curt, WE7U wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Ray Wells wrote:
>>
>>> Xastir is probably "newer" than almost any other aprs application,
>>> being that it is constantly being developed and supported by a very
>>> active mailing list. It works perfectly.
>>
>> Many people see the Xastir versions that come out in official Linux
>> distributions and assume they are the newest available. Some
>> distributions are a bit slow at including newer packages for apps.
>> Sometimes two years or more before they get around to it. From that
>> viewpoint, everything looks pretty old.
>>
>> Curt... One of those Xastir guys.
>
> One of the good guys!!
>
> Maybe I've been using Debian based systems for too long - about 18 years - so I know the packages are often (usually, always?) not the latest.
>
> I do get a bit crabby when someone makes a sweeping statement - it doesn't work - without qualifying the statement.
>
> Ray vk2tv
We always have CVS/SVN/GIT. May the Source be with you.
Bob, N7XY
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