On Saturday 17 November 2001 13:10 L, you wrote:
> The Tampa Bay Hamfest is a decent size one with good buyer
> turnout. Someone was there last year selling laptops and
> desktops loaded with Linux and as I recall did well.
I was not there last year so I missed it, sounds like someone
has already started that direction.
>
> There is a lot of interest in Linux in this area among Hams
> and many are already using it. There had been an effort to
> make a Linux CD with common utilities and Ham apps,
> don't know if that project was ever completed.
RedHat has a CD that comes with the distro that is called the
Power Tools CD, it has the AX25 stuff on it. That is my next
real project is getting all of that up on and running. We ought
to support the OS more, it is the only one that has protocols
used by the amateur community built into it. All the rest are
just add on after market stuff.
>
> I am hoping to acquire a CD with Linux 2.4.14 and Debian
> Unstable so that when my experimentation makes a huge
> mess I can just reload from it rather than go all the way back
> to Progeny and the mess they make of Debian.
>
> Am also going to be looking for a memory upgrade for my
> IBM ThinkPad 360cse and a couple of Linux-friendly pcmcia
> nics. (I don't expect to find the former but am hoping to get
> lucky and locate one or two pcmcia nics at $20. each or less.)
>
> Doc
>
> > On Saturday 10 November 2001 13:44 L, you wrote:
> > > At 05:02 PM 11/10/01 -0500, you wrote:
> > > I'm not sure if this has been posted before, but as the amature radio
> > > community has
> > > swap meets to buy-sell-trade equipment, perhaps we could as well.
>
> Perhaps
>
> > > one of the
> >
> > The Tampa Bay Hamfest is coming up on the 1 & 2 of Dec. We could get a
> > table there and promote LINUX and sell JUNK. Hams are notorious as junk
> > collectors (hey want some old Transit RX boxes??) besides which setting
> > up a LINUX box with some good ham SW on it would probably be some good
> > advert for our wonderful OS, and pull a few more from the dark side....
> >
> > Speaking of dark side, I had to do 5 windows installs yesterday.
> > 2 WinNT, 2 Win98 and 1 Win2k... Take the Win2k anytime and linux EVERY
> > time....
> >
> > --
> > Chuck Hast
> > KP4DJT
> > kp4djt@tampabay.rr.com
-- Chuck Hast KP4DJT kp4djt@tampabay.rr.com To paraphrase my flight instructor; "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn and twisted metal."
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