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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32? (Art McBride)
2. Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32? (Greg D)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 10:39:11 -0700
From: "Art McBride" <kc6uqh@xxx.xxx>
To: "'Hector, CO6CBF'" <co6cbf@xxxxxx.xx.xx>, <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32?
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To ALL,
I have used Sat PC for several years on XP, and Vista. It crashes on me if I
disconnect the USB serial connection to the radio, otherwise it is a well
behaved program. How the bios handles the USB ports is computer specific and
could be the cause of the crashing.
Art,
KC6UQH
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Behalf Of Hector, CO6CBF
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 9:56 AM
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Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32?
Hello to all!
I have an old desktop PC dedicated to ham radio ( 1 GHz Pentium CPU, 256 MB
of RAM and Win XP). I have had SatPC32 running 24x7 since December and I
have never had a SatPC32 crash.
73!
Hector, CO6CBF
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De: amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxx [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@xxxxx.xxxx En nombre
de Jim Jerzycke
Enviado el: s?bado, 18 de mayo de 2013 1:13
Para: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Asunto: [amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32?
Same here.
I've had it running on XP and Win 7 64-bit for WEEKS at a time and
_never_ had a crash.
Jim KQ6EA
On 05/18/2013 04:26 AM, George Henry wrote:
> Interesting. I have NEVER had a SatPC32 crash, under XP or Win7, and
> I have left it running continuously for several days at a time.
>
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> George, KA3HSW
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lizeth Norman"
> <normanlizeth@xxxxx.xxx>
> To: "Philip Jenkins" <n4hf.philip@xxxxx.xxx>
> Cc: <amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 10:55 PM
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32?
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>> None. Pick you poison. Satpc32 crashes using all operating systems. Good
>> for an hour or so. Then you get an OLE FEHER error. Tried this over all
>> operating systems (xp, win7, win8)
>> Grab a pc from the kerb and load up xp. cheap and simple.
>> As many problems as satpc32 has, it's far and away better than the
>> competition.
>>
>
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 11:37:58 -0700
From: Greg D <ko6th.greg@xxxxx.xxx>
To: gordonjcp@xxxx.xxx
Cc: amsat-bb@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Better/best operating system for SatPC32?
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And it's free. And that includes not having to pay for anti-virus
software on top of paying for the O/S (though in this case apparently
Win 7 is already there), or reboot for the ever-coming patches. And even
if you use the free AV software, it still takes up valuable CPU and
memory resources, which on a smaller machine can be a killer.
Uptime on this PC, by the way, is currently 224 days. OpenSuSE 12.1, on
an old 2 ghz AMD Sempron. I think I have 3gb of RAM installed, but it
used to have a lot less 224 days ago (under a gig, if I recall). My PC
at work is running OpenSusE 11.4, and it's been up for well over 200
days as well. I also run VMPlayer with Windows 7 inside, but it's up and
down like a yo-yo with the corporate-driven patches that get applied.
APRSIS/32, if you want to run APRS, works excellently in Wine on Linux,
much better in my opinion than XASTIR. I have also run several of the
Windows-based satellite tracking programs in Wine, if you need
compatibility, though I prefer gpredict.
Ubuntu is a very popular Linux distro, but I prefer OpenSuSE. The user
experience is more main-stream (but without being too Windows-like), and
all of the system configuration utilities are bundled into a single
setup tool, so they're easy to find and have the same look & feel.
Greg KO6TH
gordonjcp@xxxx.xxx wrote:
> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 10:33:18AM -0400, Philip Jenkins wrote:
>> The refurbs are pretty cheap, so I may get two and install XP on one and
>> some flavor of Linux on the other (I'm the most familiar with Ubuntu (but
>> that isn't saying much), but open to suggestions.) Does Linux still support
>> serial ports?
> Yes, of course! There's the added advantage that you don't need
additional drivers for USB-to-serial converters, too, which takes a bit more
uncertainty out of things.
>
> If it ever was supported, it should be supported now. Okay, the
kernel-mode soundmodem stuff has gone, but that was a stupid idea ;-)
Remember those old floppy connector tape drives? They're still supported -
if you can get a real genuine FDC to play with...
>
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