![]() ![]() Of course I had a lot to do with Windows at work but that did not make me want to run it at home. So for me, Linux is just the natural system to run on my PC and Windows is only an alternative that came later. I ran a phone BBS, a packet radio system (with Z8530 SCC card), and the usual software all on the same system and without spending whole days on managing HIMEM space and debugging nasty crashes due to memory overwriting. I was amazed at what the system could do at that time, after being in development only for a year or so (and of course running many programs that already were written for Unix). ![]() I built a 486 system with 16MB RAM, high-end for that time, installed it and immediately had a 32-bit multitasking system with demand paging and a graphical window system. When Linux came out, this was like a godsend. At home, I had the usual 8-bit stuff and later the 68000-based Atari ST, but I never considered spending money on a PC clone as it ran only MS-DOS which had so much trouble with multitasking and memory management (although I helped lots of people setting up systems with my packet radio software, DesqView and F6FBB BBS, all cross-developed on my Atari ST). I am from a Unix background, my first experience with computers was on a PDP11/40 with Unix version 6, and it is like "the normal OS" for me. DualBoot usually isn't the best way to become accustomed to a system, because when you boot Linux you probably are locked out of your information like e-mail, documents, etc (this of course depends on your setup) and it always is just a temporary excursion. However on a machine that isn't 10 years behind current state-of-the-art you still can use it. First have to find how to work around that.ĭB8TF is right in that most of the programs appear to be "optimized for ease of programming" rather than for "least CPU usage". However, at the moment I can not run it on my system due to a bug in combination with the native Nvidia OpenGL driver. Gqrx has a nice remote-control interface but it has only a single receiver.ĬubicSDR can run multiple receivers in the passband (so you can listen to more than one transmission at the same time) which could be nice as a starting point for locking to the beacon. We'll have to find what is the easiest way of incorporating some form of locking. Of course there are also other SDR programs for Linux, e.g. I currently use an SDRplay RSP1a for Es'hail-2 reception but the program also supports the RTL-SDR sticks. I have only experience with gqrx under Linux and it works fine (no crashes). Is it worth trying this under Windows or would you rather try it under Linux? Just a question to the experienced SDR freaks. ![]()
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