I shared this last week on the net, but here's the actual link: https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-m1-with-8gbyte-ram/ This ARM64 (rockchip) board has native SATA, which you would expect to have m

A seller on Ebay has a bunch of Lenovo ThinkCentre M625q systems on sale for $40 + $10.55 shipping. Specs are 4GB RAM and 32DB storage. This would make a thrifty alternative to a Raspberry Pi, with AM

Greetings, I'm curious if anyone has any experience with Linux logging programs besides CQRLOG. While that looks to be decent, I was curious if there is anything closer to Log4OMNG on Windows or RumLo

I posted this message over on "pat users", but I thought it might be relevant to users here as well: https://groups.google.com/g/pat-users/c/AJmJ9_OYlAc/m/9XmixCWoAgAJ The short of it is the debian ma

Hello all, I saw this post on YouTube from a channel called "Temporarily Offline Ham Radio". These guys have been playing around with Xiegu's newest HF radio, the X6100, and found that it runs Linux i

Good news for Washington County! You can try to get on the AREDN WVMN mesh now on the new K7RPT South Saddle Sector 120 device. Check out https://willamettevalleymesh.net/meshmap/ for the map. 73, Bre

I mentioned on yesterday's Net (March 14) that I had successfully replaced Chrome OS on a Chromebook with Linux, in the form of GalliumOS. GalliumOS is based on Ubuntu, so its repository has all the s

My notes for the Feb. 7 installment of the Look inside Linux series, What kind of computers can Linux run on?, have been posted on my Web site. Please use this topic thread to ask questions or make co

On the first Linux User Net session of 2022, I started a series of short (5 - 10 minutes) topics on the basics of Linux. My notes for each topic are posted on my Web site for the benefit of anyone who

On the 12/20 net, Chris mentioned that he was experimenting with pat winlink and direwolf to do packet operations on linux. If you find APRS interesting as well, I wanted to mention my favorite APRS c

Hi. Well what’s the general keyboard short cuts to then read with orca. Did try looking but could not seem to find any of them. And also the install screen did not come up when I then did control g, a

Hi. A blind networking student and need to do an assignment where I need to install linux and will be doing this in vm ware player under windows 10. So, is there a getting started guide how to use lin

There was lots of good discussion of Clear Linux on yesterday's net. (Special thanks to to Mike, KG7KON, for sharing his insider's knowledge of the distro's development at Intel.) Clear Linux is devel

This is still a work in progress, but since I mentioned it on the net tonight I'll link it here: https://www.kf7hvm.com/repeaters/ Using leaflet and mapbox tiles; source: https://github.com/masenf/kf7

When I went looking for a RPi4 8GB RAM board today for an upcoming project, I was surprised (although shouldn't have been) to find that ALL official Raspberry Pi US vendors are showing out of stock fo

The 20 September 2021 Linux Net discussed an issue faced by one of the operators. The issue was how to interface between a RPi with 3.3V rated IO to a HF radio using 5V logic. I performed a quick sear

MicroSD cards are physically tiny, and despite being able to write a lot of bytes, there is not a lot of space on the outside to write a label. To get around this, I bought a 200 pack of tiny baggies

Hello all, During the net on 8/30, I had suggested the use of SSH tunnels for securely accessing services over the network. It was suggested that I briefly write it up. This is all assuming that your

please try not to laugh. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UGX_LsfLwOK8gUAz7YGwJK3QQuwFTz2B/view?usp=drivesdk

Create udev rules for ttyUSB devices Table of Contents 1. Create udev rules for ttyUSB devices 1.1. Get the properties from the USB device 1.2. Get the unique identifier 1.3. Create a new udev rule 1.