RE: AX25 and related software's future in Debian

["IT1 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR" <stuart.tener@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marius,

Excuse me but the ham radio apps work just fine for me, so long as  
nobody deletes them from distribution. I don't need no stink'in GUI!  
If I did, I'd have given up on Linux and Unix Administration a long  
time ago and become a Windows weenie. However, I have always chosen to  
take the same posture that my maid does, "I DO NOT DO WINDOWS!"

And if Ham Radio is an obscure activity it is because how many talks  
were given on Amateur Radio at Schmoocon? At DEFCON? At places where  
the hacking and technical communities stand in congress together?  
Perhaps the issue is marketing.

When last I went to DEFCON I saw an OVERCROWD of people waiting to  
learn how to pick a lock, pick a lock I said! Had a decent Ham Radio  
setup been there, with HF, Packet, Amateur TV, etc... we'd have likely  
done well at marketing our hobby.


Stuart


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Quoting Marius Petrescu <marius@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Please take the effort to remember the whole thread...
>
> It started because there was a proposal to rename node from the ax25 suite
> into something else, so that "newcomer" node.js  could be named node
> instead.
> (What a server side javascript package has with in common with the name node
> is still a mistery to me, maybe the authors should calle it kernel since the
> name and function seems to be irelevant and unrelated in their opinion...)
>
> And the idea behind distros like Ubuntu is not about having or not the ax25
> package in the distribution, but the issue of CONSISTENCY. It is really
> idiotic to have "node" an ax25 node communication software as a package in
> one distro (e.g. Ubuntu) and in another one to have "node" a java script
> package (talking about Debian where the discussion started).
> Remember this happened before: axmail was just overrun by some After Logic
> XMail, without any hesitations. But this seems to be the trend...
> For "the clicking generation", ham radio is an obscure activity which just
> can be trampled down since it does not result in nice pictures on a device
> with an bitten fruit on it, and packet radio just some obsolete
> non-important stuff that can be ignored (Duhhhh, ever heard of 3G and HSDPA?
> Why would you want to use that?).
>
> But again maybe this is a signal to get some fresh wind into ham radio apps,
> maybe ax.25 in its current concept is really obsolete. And in this case we
> need to do something about it. Making it maybe a little more "clickable"...
>
> Marius, YO2LOJ
> proud user of ax.25
>
>
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