Posted: 12/14/2013 8:46:38 AM EDT
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I just picked up an Acer C710 Chromebook for cheep and have seen how easy it is to install linux. Right now it is running Ubuntu pretty well, installed easy and straightforward following these instructions
I've installed echolink under wine, which seems to work, need to config firewall to really test. I'd like to have an ultra portable rig control, digital mode, logging, programming for my FT-857 using this little chromebook. So, linux guys point me in the right direction for the best place to start learning about the apps one by one for what I am trying to do. I am willing to experiment a little and learn more about linux along the way. If there is a specific distribution, I guess I would even investigate how to go about installing that on the chromebook. |
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Distros like Ubuntu and Mint are based off of Debian which is a really good platform.
I have a Acer C7 with chrubuntu xfce-desktop. Nice and fast plus the blue tooth is cool for my phone. Start learning the command line. Today you can do just about everything in a GUI but the CLI is much faster and most of the time more powerful. If you go to the WSJTX page you can get their ubuntu version. I also recommend pavucontrol to control audio levels. Other programs are FLDIGI, FLRIG, xastir, gpredict |
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I'd stick with Ubuntu, it's definitely one of the friendlier distros that has a lot of how-to pages and
premade packages. (Not what I use, but I'm part dinosaur.) As gcw mentioned, look into FLdigi. A full install will give your rig control, almost all digital modes, and some logging. It also drags along a lot of the libraries needed for these functions by other apps, but the package manager should handle that anyway. |
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A lot of sudo apt-get remove and sudo apt-get install, a lot of scratching of the head and doing the same thing over again, and I now have a waterfall from the SignaLink with fldigi on the chromebook. It's a start. No rig control yet, waiting for a USB CAT cable.
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A lot of sudo apt-get remove and sudo apt-get install, a lot of scratching of the head and doing the same thing over again, and I now have a waterfall from the SignaLink with fldigi on the chromebook. It's a start. No rig control yet, waiting for a USB CAT cable. What script did you use for Chrubuntu? the older ones didn't have serial built into the kernal. the new one does (s9ryd) apt-get is so awesome. I have started to use apt-chacher-ng on a server. It saves all of the files you download so if you want to download the stuff again on a different computer it is saved localy |
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A lot of sudo apt-get remove and sudo apt-get install, a lot of scratching of the head and doing the same thing over again, and I now have a waterfall from the SignaLink with fldigi on the chromebook. It's a start. No rig control yet, waiting for a USB CAT cable. I prefer Debian, I ran ubuntu for a while, but went back to Debian |
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Distros like Ubuntu and Mint are based off of Debian which is a really good platform. I have a Acer C7 with chrubuntu xfce-desktop. Nice and fast plus the blue tooth is cool for my phone. Start learning the command line. Today you can do just about everything in a GUI but the CLI is much faster and most of the time more powerful. If you go to the WSJTX page you can get their ubuntu version. I also recommend pavucontrol to control audio levels. Other programs are FLDIGI, FLRIG, xastir, gpredict You forgot XLOG. ;) My migration from 10.04 LTS to Mint 13 mate LTS is going pretty good. Everything works except for mixer control in fldigi. I may have forgotten pavucontrol, will check that. The really fun part about buntu/mint/distro is the open source aspect. "I need a program to do X" Sudo apt-get install <as many candidates as I can find> Play with them all. Uninstall the ones you don't like. Cost? Just the time you spent learning. Sound a lot like a certain hobby that promotes learning over just spending money to solve a problem? Linux and ham go together like bacon and bacon. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |