[Dxspider-support] FEDORA 3 question

[Mike McCarthy]

I would highly recommend SuSE instead of FC3.

With SuSE, you don't have to rebuild the kernel to get the AX.25 functions. 
They are included as modules.  FC3 requires you to reconfigure and rebuild 
the kernel.  Not something that is an easy thing for a Linux newcommer to do 
correctly.

Ham Radio Software is in the distribution and up to date.  With FC3, you 
have to download RedHat 6.2 files and they are nowhere near as complete as 
SuSE.

Perl is complete.  You just load the appropriate libraries during the 
install.  That way you get updates through the update program Yast.

It is much easier to move from Windows to SuSE than it is to FC3.  The 
administration interface is much more "Winblows" like.

SuSE Professional 9.2 is available for free through FTP install.  Read the 
following file on how to do it
ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.2/README.FTP

You can also buy the CD/DVD package from various sources.  I have used Red 
Hat since it's earliest days and started out with my cluster on 7.3.  After 
Red Hat went to Fedora, I decided to try SuSE.  It is a bit different to 
manage and took some time to get used to, but I will never go back to Red 
Hat.  In addition, FC3 is cutting (bleeding) edge software and can be 
unstable at times.  With SuSE, they tend to release major updates after the 
bugs have been worked out by the FC3 team.  They are a little bit behind 
FC3, but are much more stable as a result.

SuSE 9.3 is available only in retail distribution at the moment.  FTP is 
still promised but not on the mirrors yet.  In addition, the Ham software 
(not the kernel, the modules are still shipped) was dropped from the direct 
distribution, but is still maintained and updated as a "project".  It just 
makes it a little less straightforward to download.

FTP install takes a long time to do and you need a high speed internet 
connection.  It's unfortunate that they don't let you download the .iso 
images anymore.

Mike, W1NR




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wilson, Jack" <jackw at brescia.edu>
To: <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 8:50 AM
Subject: [Dxspider-support] FEDORA 3 question


I am moving my windows spider box over to linux. Has anyone used fedora
core 3 to run dxspider? Any gotchas that anyone would like to share?

Thanks,

Jack K4SAC

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