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On May 23, 2012, at 11:15 AM, "Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@icecavern.net> wrote:
On Thursday, May 03, 2012 19:32:00 Patrick Ouellette wrote:
I come to the lists mentally and physically exhausted from the
current struggle to defend the ham radio package node in the Debian
distribution.
Who have you been speaking with? I know some people who know some people.
I also seem to be the only person interested in the
ax25 software (libax25, ax25-tools, ax25-xtools, and ax25-utils).
That makes at least two of us.
The situation with node has made me wonder why I am even bothering.
Whatever the reason, it probably started like
We The People...
I
can compile the ax25 stack for my use, and not have to put up with the
baggage Debian requires.
It's pretty light baggage.
The question I have for the lists - is there really any interest in
having ham radio software, particularly libax25 and the tools/utils in
Debian? I know if it disappears from Debian it affects all Debian
derived distros (like Ubuntu for instance).
Ooh! Ooh! Me! And KE7KML probably.
I do not use any ax25 software at the moment, but I've always had it on my
list of interesting things to try: back when I was younger (I wasn't a ham
at the time) I helped a friend of mine set up packet radio software on his
computer.
Nice. I'd like to give it a try.
About ham radio software in general, I do use a lot of other ham radio
software packaged in Debian. In general I'm surprised that there isn't more
overlap between the ham radio and free/open-source software communities.
Yeah. They seem a natural fit to me.
- W5OSS
KF7BMP
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