MKT, All,
The reason I must use WINDOW$ at all is simple. Not everyone I will be allowing to access the data on my computer, the Part 90 spreadsheet and later, hopefully a database is that they ALL don't run LINUX. I would say that 99% of the guys still run WINDOW$ in some flavor (XP thru 7) on their systems. I'm changing over to Linux for MY system, but I know others won't so I have to carry two OS's and file systems for them to still access the data to print it out as they need it.
If I could afford to get a Mac laptop, I would for some other "projects" I have in mind, but right now, that's out of the question.
With Ubuntu, I'm not real sure of what
packages are included in it. I certainly want to access the programs that will allow me to communicate with my ham rig, over-the-air in digital mode (fldigi) to do
PSK-31, PSK-63, BPSK, Hellschriber and others. Also, I am an antenna experimenter, so I'd want to work and keep that data private. I love pictures of galaxies, gas clouds, star clusters, planets, and unspoiled nature shots (forest, rivers, valleys, trees of all kinds, sunsets, sun rises, thunderstorms, lightning, flowers, animals without any sense of
man having been there. Those shots of unspoiled mountains are harder to find nowadays, without some ugly, cell 'phone tower or power line in the picture, LOL! There is nothing so gorgeous as a mountain sunrise or sunset with crisp air and the leaves changing colours.
Well, I digressed. Anyway, that's my reason. I'm not familiar with Linux or it's file systems. However, I do want to learn. I'm taking on-line lessons, but it's a learn as you go and you're not able to just look up what you need to know about, LOL! GOD willing, I'll get there though and then
I'll be able to help someone, just as Y' all have helped me.
Well, I can't sleep and I really NEED too. I'll go in an watch the local news channel (24/7) and that will bore me to sleep. LOL!
GOD BLESS,
Warmest Regard,
Buck/KA5LQJ
WIN vs Linux filesystems....
