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riese-k3djc

Has anyone tried UBUNTU (Linux

when it was introduced i had a machine that would double boot
worked well, stable but not much written for it

Bob K3DJC

On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 22:49:03 -0400 Steve Boles <[hidden email]> writes:
> Has anyone tried UBUNTU (Linux) ... 73 - Steve (ARS: WB4SED)

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NK7Z

Re: Has anyone tried UBUNTU (Linux

I am running Ubuntu on two machines, and it is rock solid. My main
machine never has an issue, and always works, and I beat it up daily...
My wife's laptop is the same, no issues in several years of operation.

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On 7/31/19 8:41 PM, [hidden email] wrote:

> when it was introduced i had a machine that would double boot
> worked well, stable but not much written for it
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> Bob K3DJC
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Nate Bargmann

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Not Ubuntu, but its parent Debian. Right now Debian 10 (Buster) is
quite stable and nearly boring to a fault!

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Alan Bloom

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Yes I have been using Ubuntu for years. I used to have probllems with it
Every once in awhile something would break after an update. But since
I upgraded to version 16.04 LTS (Long Term Support version introduced in
2016) it has been stable.

At first I just used it for email and surfing the Internet - all my
iimportant software was on a separate Windows computer. As time goes by
there are more and ore applications available for Linux and now I even
run some sophisticated engineering software on that computer.

The main problem I have had is that installing drivers can be a pain I
bought a certain printer model specifically because they claimed they
had a driver for Linux Turned out yes they had a driver but it didn't
work. (I should have Googled it before I bought it to find that out.)
I had to use the printer on a Windows machine instead.

Alan N1AL

On 2019-07-31 20:41, [hidden email] wrote:

> when it was introduced i had a machine that would double boot
> worked well, stable but not much written for it
>
> Bob K3DJC
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> On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 22:49:03 -0400 Steve Boles <[hidden email]> writes:
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>> Has anyone tried UBUNTU (Linux) ... 73 - Steve (ARS: WB4SED)
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Bill-3

Re: Has anyone tried UBUNTU (Linux

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I use Mint - it is wonderful. Keep it completely updated for about 20
seconds a week - and never requires a reboot. Too bad more software is
not available for Linux.

Bill W2BLC

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Steve Boles

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Thanks so much for the numerous responses. A month ago a bought a 13" Dell
with "factory loaded" UBUNTU and have been very pleased with its
performance. I'm very new to UBUNTU but have run Puppy in the past and
have been very pleased with it. Two more questions if I may... Is UBUNTU
compatible with the Elecraft maintenance software? And, any thoughts about
CQRLOG logging program? Thanks & 73... Steve (ARS: WB4SED) //

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> I use Mint - it is wonderful. Keep it completely updated for about 20
> seconds a week - and never requires a reboot. Too bad more software is
> not available for Linux.
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Nate Bargmann

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* On 2019 01 Aug 16:17 -0500, Steve Boles wrote:
> Thanks so much for the numerous responses. A month ago a bought a 13" Dell
> with "factory loaded" UBUNTU and have been very pleased with its
> performance. I'm very new to UBUNTU but have run Puppy in the past and
> have been very pleased with it.

That is good to hear.

> Two more questions if I may... Is UBUNTU compatible with the Elecraft
> maintenance software?

Yes, with a caveat. If your Ubuntu installation is 64 bit, a.k.a.
amd64, then some additional legwork is required to get the 32 bit
utilities running. I have documented that process here:

https://www.n0nb.us/blog/2016/07/running-electraft-utilities-on-linux-amd64-and-multiarch/

Some of the particulars may be outdated, but as I recall the packages
were still current for Debian 10, a.k.a. Buster.

> And, any thoughts about CQRLOG logging program?

I have been using it for years. It integrates well with Fldigi, WSJT-X,
eQSL, and Trusted QSL. However, the current released version does have
a problem with wsjtx. I have documented that in this Debian bug report:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=932776

which references this thread in the CQRlog forum:

https://www.cqrlog.com/node/2061

HTH,

73, Nate, N0NB

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Mike Markowski-2

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Steve and all,

I used cqrlog for a couple years and it's impressive. For sake of
simplicity, however, I went back to the trio of xlog & xdx with hamlib
support. I made a minor modification xdx so that when I select a new
(for me) dx, I can then paste the call into xlog.

As to Elecraft software, no, it is not compatible with modern versions
of linux without some effort. For some odd reason, Elecraft only makes
32-bit binaries available. You can load those libraries onto Ubuntu,
but it's a lot of bloat. I chose to use unofficial 64-bit versions which
work fine so far.

73,
Mike ab3ap

On 8/1/19 5:15 PM, Steve Boles wrote:
> Thanks so much for the numerous responses. A month ago a bought a 13" Dell
> with "factory loaded" UBUNTU and have been very pleased with its
> performance. I'm very new to UBUNTU but have run Puppy in the past and
> have been very pleased with it. Two more questions if I may... Is UBUNTU
> compatible with the Elecraft maintenance software? And, any thoughts about
> CQRLOG logging program? Thanks & 73... Steve (ARS: WB4SED) //
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