RE: on forming a new Linux Distribution
Thanks for taking it as intended - and not the flame bait it might
have sounded like. (Rough night last night - but I did put the
delete disclaimer in)
I've been using hamm for some time, and as long as you check to be
sure that application you can't live without exists, it has been
fairly stable for the last month. The autoup.sh script was a bit
rough (I have heard it is much better now) and I trashed a system
with it. After I installed from scratch everything has been
reasonable (except the soundmodem programs were linked against
libc5).
When you get around to porting those ham apps, let me know and I'd
be happy to help if I can.
73 de KB8PYM
Pat
Email: pouellet@eng.utoledo.edu
Amateur Radio (voice): KB8PYM on KB8YVY repeater (52.650 / 146.835 /
444.650)
Amateur Radio (packet): kb8pym@w8hhf.#tol.#nwoh.us.noam
Running down the hall: Hey you!
You can ping your node, you can ping you neighbor, but you can't ping your
neighbor?s node.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth.Scharf@coulter.com [mailto:Kenneth.Scharf@coulter.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 1998 12:02 PM
> To: pouellet@eng.utoledo.edu; debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution
>
>
>
> >If someone has the desire to install an operating system on a computer
> that is created,
> >supported, and distributed by volunteers they should expect to have to do
> some amount of
> >reading to configure the system to their liking. When someone does the
> install and
> >then proceeds to cry because the system doesn't do what their friend's
> does,
> >without being willing to read and follow the documentation I quickly lose
> patience.
> >It is a different issue if the person reads the documentation and doesn't
> >understand it, or the solution is not in the documentation. At least the
> person has
> >*tried* to help themselves.
>
> No problem here. As I said I *DID* find the answers and got my debian
> installation to talk to my
> ethernet card after making use of available documentation. But it was not
> Debian specfic documentation that
> was most helpfull, but rather general linux networking and slackware
> specific documentation that gave me my answers.
>
> >Yep, lots of apps need to be ported - are you volunteering?
>
> Ok put your money where your mouth is eh? I'm not yet at the
> point where I
> could make the kind of
> contribution that I'd like to. First I need to get my own system in order
> (I'll end up starting from scratch with
> debin 2.0 when it is ready for prime time). Then I need to learn how to
> program GUI under X (which standard? Motif etc?), I currently know MFC
> under windows professionally.
>
> >As with most free things, you get out what you put in. If you want a
> system
> >that is easy for the "casual" user, you need to develop that and be
> willing
> >to hold the hand of all the "casual" users when they don't understand why
> >the system is doing what they told it to, not what they think it
> should be
> >doing.
>
> Yes I'd also like to help improve system friendlyness for the begineer.
>
>
> >I applaud Bruce for attempting to follow this goal, and wish him the best
> of
> >luck in the endeavor. I hope it meets with better success than the Linux
> >for Hams project.
>
> Maybe Debian should become linux for hams. How about a default
> configuration for amateur radio users?
> And solicit more ham radio packages. I'm willing to write / port some, in
> the near future.
>
>
>
>
>
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