Buddy Brannan observed:

"...but the GUI has a long way to go yet before it's very usable."

Very true, though we are ostensibly getting closer, at least with fedora 
core 6. Just had a friend help me put that on my linux box about two weeks 
ago, but have not had any time to investigate the above contention / 
proposition.

Anyone here know anything about ORCA?

John
KW4U

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Buddy Brannan" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: JAWS 8.0 Has Been Officially Released


> On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 01:48:11PM -0500, Christopher Moore wrote:
>> And the answer to all this is
>> USE LINUX!!!
>
> ...which will give you a whole brand new special set of problems! Of
> course, the good news is that once you get those worked out, it just
> keeps going without any help...but the GUI has a long way to go yet
> before it's very usable.
>
> That said, I've got a great little machine in the attic just waiting
> for an IRLP node. ... Which is coming. IRLP and Echolink on one box
> (so I can hit the Handi-ham and the PWD nets). Got a new old repeater
> on eBay, all set up already on 146.91. The trick's gonna be getting
> separate transmit and receive antennas separated enough so the
> transmitter doesn't desense the receiver too much (because duplexers
> are too expensive). Then I'll eventually have to put in a PL
> decoder. But looking forward to setting up an IRLP/Echolink box as a
> repeater controller. Just to make this all ham radio related again, 
> y'know.
> -- 
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