[Dxspider-support] FEDORA 3 question

[Dirk Koopman]

On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 09:29 -0400, Mike McCarthy wrote:
> 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.

The same can be said for Mandrake/Mandriva 2005 limited edition except
that that is now downloadable as either 6 CDs or a DVD image. This has
all the latest ax25 stuff built in. The install process is particularly
good.

I personally prefer it to SuSE as it is much closer to Redhat
administratively than SuSE is, but from the new user's point of view
either would do your job admirably. 

These days I avoid RedHat (even though I have been using it since RedHat
2.0) especially for Ham apps (because they are either not available or
too old) or for commercial use (because it is just not up to date
enough).

Dirk G1TLH