On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:14:35 -1000, Cebu_Charlie
wrote:

Roy Lewallen wrote:

EZNEC is now able to run under Linux using the wine emulator. EZNEC
version 4.0.34 (the current version) or later is required.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

great Roy, but do us all a favor and port it out to linux so we dont have to
play with wine to use it.

What I need is an operating system that will run all the software that
XP does without my spending much time tinkering with it.

I revisit Linux every few years with a fresh release and an identical
machine to my Windows system. SUSE 10 has come close but some of the
simplest things elude me. Since retirement 15 years ago I have become
isolated from other users except on the Internet. When I seek answers
to simple questions I an usually overwhelmed with a flood of answers
of varying usefulness.

I would like to run my windows and dos software on my Linux machine
with NTFS support, attached to my LAN. I want to be able to install &
delete hardware and software with processes that behave in a
consistent manner. I should be able to use my PIC programmers and my
ham radio software with out tinkering.

Until that happens with Linux I am locked into an XP machine and a
Win 98 machine in the configuration. I don't want to discourage the
Linux community but at this time it is best suited to the business
user where a few applications on a number of systems will get the job
done.

John Ferrell W8CCW

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:58:38 +0000, John Ferrell wrote:

I would like to run my windows and dos software on my Linux machine
with NTFS support, attached to my LAN. I want to be able to install &
delete hardware and software with processes that behave in a
consistent manner. I should be able to use my PIC programmers and my
ham radio software with out tinkering.

I'm sure you understand this, but others may not realize that Linux is not,
nor was ever intended to be a drop-in replacement for Windows of any
vintage. It is intended as a freely available Unix work-alike although many
efforts have resulted in some good ability to run Windows software through
emulation.

Until that happens with Linux I am locked into an XP machine and a
Win 98 machine in the configuration. I don't want to discourage the
Linux community but at this time it is best suited to the business
user where a few applications on a number of systems will get the job
done.

It's not ever going to happen in that manner. Linux is its own entity and
does that very well, just like the Mac is its own entity. There are
similarities between all systems, but again, Linux is not nor was ever
intended as a bug-for-bug replacement of Windows capable of running Windows
software unmodified. A lot of people, including myself, use Linux as our
desktop and are quite satisfied with no Windows in sight.

I'm sorry if you were led to believe that Linux is a software compatible
replacement for Windows. It's not.

73, de Nate

--

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds,
the pessimist fears this is true."

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:34:28 -0600, Nate Bargmann
wrote:

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:58:38 +0000, John Ferrell wrote:

I would like to run my windows and dos software on my Linux machine
with NTFS support, attached to my LAN. I want to be able to install &
delete hardware and software with processes that behave in a
consistent manner. I should be able to use my PIC programmers and my
ham radio software with out tinkering.

I'm sure you understand this, but others may not realize that Linux is not,
nor was ever intended to be a drop-in replacement for Windows of any
vintage. It is intended as a freely available Unix work-alike although many
efforts have resulted in some good ability to run Windows software through
emulation.

Until that happens with Linux I am locked into an XP machine and a
Win 98 machine in the configuration. I don't want to discourage the
Linux community but at this time it is best suited to the business
user where a few applications on a number of systems will get the job
done.

It's not ever going to happen in that manner. Linux is its own entity and
does that very well, just like the Mac is its own entity. There are
similarities between all systems, but again, Linux is not nor was ever
intended as a bug-for-bug replacement of Windows capable of running Windows
software unmodified. A lot of people, including myself, use Linux as our
desktop and are quite satisfied with no Windows in sight.

I'm sorry if you were led to believe that Linux is a software compatible
replacement for Windows. It's not.

73, de Nate
I did not mean to be critical of Linux, I just could not restrain the
urge to expose my wish list!

John Ferrell W8CCW

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:21:57 +0000, John Ferrell wrote:

I did not mean to be critical of Linux, I just could not restrain the
urge to expose my wish list!

That's fine. I was just trying to clarify the position of Linux in relation
to Windows. I'm afraid that at times those of us that do advocate Linux are
not as clear about it as we should be. It would be fantastic if there was
some magic OS that ran everything. Wait a minute! Linux is almost
there! ;-)

I have played with WinDRM and some of the Antenna book software with Wine. I
have also used Morse Runner with Wine and it's great fun.

73, de Nate

--

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds,
the pessimist fears this is true."