RF Podcast EP 49 Powerful Linux

- Mobile Episode
- Intro
- Welcome
- Visit the website www.rfpodcast.info
- Donations
- Bridgecom Systems (DMR Radios and Hotspots)
- Patreon "Become a Patron Today!"
- By Me A Coffee (Tip Jar)
- PayPal (Our old faithful donation spot)
- No feedback this time
- Topic more Linux
- Linux makes sense
- It is not hard to work with
- Has more than one Great Desktop
- Different flavors of Linux are called Distributions
- The current focus is to make it more desktop friendly
- Why
- You don't always want to have your ham stuff on your everyday equipment
- Makes older computers run great
- Can be run from a thumb drive
- Live CD's
- Freedom
- Free as in money
- Open source
- The other free
- Modify it if you want
- Make it yours
- Share it with your friends
- If I put it on my wife's machine she wouldn't know the difference
- Best Distributions
- Linux Mint (Debian Based)
- Ubuntu (Debian Based)
- Fedora ( Red Hat Based)
- Crunch Bang (Now defunct)
- Probably Not for the Novice
- Read about other Distros and see there top ten list at Distrowatch
- Amateur Radio
- All the software is in one place
- lots of software in the repositories
- Rig Control
- Packet
- Logging
- Digital Modes software
- CW Trainers
- Satellite Software
- DX Cluster
- Did an interview with the writer of FLdigi once
- Free Soft Ware like FlDigi Linux and Windows
- CQRlog
- XDX
- Drats
- Feature Rich D-Star Data
- Richards Story Time
- Crunch Bang Linux
- on a 12 year old laptop
- A bunch of computer stuff
- Use Linux Mint and take a test drive
- I hate Windows
- Started on Windows 2.0 before that I was a DOS guy
- Check out the Gal in the Heil headset
- SEND ME YOUR FEEDBACK!
- Brad Sucks Rocks
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