[UK-CONTEST] Win7 to LINUX

[Clive Whelan]

Sadly not Neil

Andy is quite right with his comments, and I flirted with CQR log a 
couple of years back, but it was way off the pace.

Of course N1MM is a very hard act indeed to follow, and benefits from 
years of development by clever programmers ( not just N1MM himself of 
course ), as well as support and documentation teams.

If one rewinds a few years TRlog was the granddaddy of them all and 
pioneered " ESM " which I wouldn't get out of bed without. Sadly this 
was written in Pascal , and Tree was unbale to make the jump to a 
Windows friendly language, and therefore the advent of Win XP sadly 
sounded its death knell. Several clever programmers like our own G4FON 
dallied with the porting of TR to e.g. C++, but in reality it just never 
happened. The Russians have, I believe, ported it to that language but 
the last time I looked the support was only available in Russian ( 
caveat there is now said to be an active English language forum but.....).

Coming full circle, N1MM is written in Visual Basic ( and none the worse 
for that btw ) and as Andy has pointed out does not run well under Wine. 
Operation under a Mac OS is said to be possible, but is not popular. 
Despite the fact that VB has a very limited life remaining, the authors 
seem convinced that it can continue to be compiled to x86 code for the 
foreseeable future; we must hope thaqt they are right.

We are therefore dependent upon OK1RR, OK2CQR at al to make the leap to 
Linux, and I for one anticipate that development with eagerness, 
although refrain from holding my breath!

The lack of a competent contest logger is the one thing that prevents me 
from moving wholesale to Linux.


That said Win7 is a step change in the Windows environment, and nobody 
should be afraid of making the change. ( caveat MK2R users have to 
suffer extremely long virtual port booting which is a PITA )

73


Clive
GW3NJW



On 31/12/2011 12:35, Neil Ackerley wrote:
>
> Seeing Bob's note about XP to WIN 7 triggered me to ask if anyone has
> experience of contest programs under LINUX/
>
> For Bob, I moved from XP to Win7 a while back with no problems. I use N1MM
> with K1EL and MMVARI for contesting and Win7 no problems.
>
> I have just made my home-built desk top dual boot Win7 and LINUX (MINT). I
> have CQRLOGGER working in LINUX but I could do with something more slick
> like N1MM with ESM. I have imported my entire station log from Logger32
> which I use for normal logging.
>
> I want to move to LINUX as I am fed up with Windows bloat-ware and the cost.
>
> Neil, G3RIR
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob G3PJT
> Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 11:26 AM
> To: UK Contest
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Off topic XP to Win 7
>
> Hi
> Sorry for the off topic but if anyone has done a XP to Win 7 change could I
> have a have some advice re compatibility of W7 and various progs. Please
> contact off reflector
>
> thanks, HNY
>
> bob G3PJT
>
>
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