[Dxspider-support] anyone running DXspider on RH / FC systems?

[N1OFZ]

With SuSE (any version) AX.25 is loaded as a module and therefore does 
not require a kernel recompile.  I usually do a basic install then run 
YaST and load all the ham radio stuff.  SuSE is rpm based like RH, but 
the difference is that they have lots of ham radio related stuff 
already included in the distro.  I just did a quick count and there are 
50 rpms under productivity/hamradio.

The advantage of SuSE is that I can do an install from scratch in about 
30 minutes, have AX.25 and many radio apps up and running without ever 
having to compile a thing.  While I don't mind compiling software (or 
kernels) I think SuSE make it as easy as possible for the Windows user 
that is trying out 'Linux'.

Dana
N1OFZ

On Aug 25, 2004, at 2:21 PM, Andrea Borgia wrote:

> I am biased towards Debian at the moment and I freely admit it, but in 
> my case all problems were due to the simple and inescapable fact 
> that... I had never even _used_ a cluster node before I was (almost) 
> given the task of setting up one. I suppose Debian should work out of 
> the box, too, when it comes to the kernel(*), but the perl stuff has 
> to be downloaded via apt-get (no big deal). Of course, much depends on 
> what answers you give during setup.
>
> Back to SuSE: did you perform a standard install? Which version of the 
> distro are you talking about? Was there any SuSE-specific file to 
> tweak to have a good setup? ("good" does not mean just working: 
> there's more than one way to do it and one of them looks best 8-)
>
> The kind of trivia I have in mind is: perl-module-FOO is called 
> perl-libfoo in debian, perl-modules-libfoo in distro xyz and something 
> else in SuSE (random examples). Dirk has written the docs with the 
> generic perl names in mind and I think it would be a good idea to 
> present the readers with the distro-specific equivalents of those 
> names.
> Hence my joke about gentoo: they're the least likely to benefit from 
> such kind of hand-holding.
>
> As an aside: my articles will fit in a series that has used RH as 
> basis for examples in the past, so my desire to provide a multi-distro 
> perspective is in part simple need.
>
> B73,
> Andrea.
>
> (*) I was taught at the uni that you always roll the most appropriate 
> kernel for a given target, if you can afford it, and for a reason.