[UK-CONTEST] Beta Testers Wanted

[Clive Whelan]

Sadly you're right Roger, if only because there is no viable Linux 
contest logger. Martin/OK1RR and his oppo. OK2CQR do have a promising 
start in CQRlog, but it's more of a general logger than a contest one at 
present, and it certainly won't hack the microHam protocols, despite 
Jozef/OM7ZZ giving his support, and- I suppose- speaking the same 
language +/-? All other applications that I can envisage are catered for 
at least as well or better than under Windows

The pros and cons of Linux , are that it is a vastly superior operating 
system ( imo) to any Windows variant. The downside is that- in my 
experience- the programmers are evangelistic and believe that everything 
they produce has  a god given right to success, and anything tainted by 
a commercial slant, is bad and must be cast into the wilderness. Whilst 
users of N1MM and Logger 32 know that there is a new paradigm in Amateur 
radio software, viz there IS such a thing as a free lunch, yet  
paradoxically the lack of a commercial slant to Linux tends to blunt its 
technological leading edge, or so it seems to me.

I am equivocal as to what will happen to Linux in the grander scheme of 
things, but as a born again cynic fear that powerful vested interests ( 
read Microsoft) will ensure that it remains a minor player in the 
market; I wish it were not so.


73


Clive
GW3NJW

Roger Parsons wrote:
> I'm sure there are quite a few of us lurking around running Linux, and I too would love to be able to ditch Windows from my radio PC, but I fear it is not going to happen any time soon.
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> 73 Roger
> VE3ZI
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>> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Beta Testers Wanted
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>>
>> I am always in favour of software and particularly when the
>> author 
>> delivers it for free to the community but can I please ask
>> if you are 
>> writing a new piece of software that it is cross platform? 
>> I have to 
>> jump through hoops (well virtual machines) in order to run
>> the software 
>> I use for logging/rig control and there is not as yet
>> anything really 
>> useful under Linux.  I cannot speak for the Mac community
>> but a cross 
>> platform logging program would be superb.
>>
>> 73 Ian
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Ian J Maude, G0VGS
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