Amateur radio programs for Linux

Richard Jenkins VK1RJ speaking of LINUX for Amateur Radio says one of the drawbacks of adopting Linux is that there is often poor support for amateur radio programs. One of the better attempts at providing amateur radio operators with a suite of 'free' programs for amateur radio is to be found on the web at http://www.afu-knoppix.de

This variant on Knoppix comes complete on a single cd-rom ... and is freely copyable onto your friend's disk, etc.

Originally written for the German amateur, it has English version ... and VK1RJ has easily downloaded it onto a partition on his hard drive and has it happily running on a laptop with a 4 Gig partition.

Located on the disk are a raft of amateur radio programs ... for psk31, morse, SSTV, etc. As well there are the standard linux programs including an office suite and various graphics and multimedia manipulation programs.

Additional programs can be readily downloaded from Knoppix and/or Debian repositories.

This is a four-star distribution and well worth a download.

(richard.jenkinsatinternode.on.net)

Source: Wireless Institute of Australia

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