[Dxspider-support] FEDORA 3 question

[Bob Nielsen]

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.

Debian and its clones (Libranet and Ubuntu at least) are also quite
suitable for DX Spider, including AX.25 support in the kernel and
packaged versions of the necessary CPAN modules.  CDs of Ubuntu 5.04 are
available free of charge from <http://shipit.ubuntu.com> (this is a
single CD, some packages must be downloaded).

Bob, N7XY