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Where do I find more information about .... ?

2008-12-08T13:59:16Z

DL1JBE: /* Linux Ham Radio Software */

Since this document assumes you already have some experience with packet radio, and that this might not be the case, I've collected a set of references to other information that you might find useful.

== Packet Radio ==

You can get general information about Packet Radio from these sites:

* American Radio Relay League
* Radio Amateur Teleprinter Society
* Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Group

== Protocol Documentation ==

* AX.25, NET/ROM - Jonathon Naylor has collated a variety of documents that relate to the packet radio protocols themselves. This documentation has been packaged up into ax25-doc-1.0.tar.gz

== Hardware Documentation ==

* Information on the PI2 Card is provided by the Ottawa Packet Radio Group.
* Information on Baycom hardware is available at the Baycom Web Page.

== Linux Ham Radio Software ==

John Ackermann has a web site with information related to configuring AX.25 on Linux at http://www.febo.com/packet/linux-ax25/index.html.

The Hamsoft Linux Ham Radio Applications and Utilities Database attempts to maintain a complete list of Amateur Radio related applications for Linux. It can be found at http://radio.linux.org.au.

Distributions

2008-08-10T16:12:09Z

DL1JBE: /* Gentoo */

The aggregation of a Linux kernel, other system software such as a boot loader and applications are called '''distributions''' Distributions differ in their ''philosophy'' such as being for free or commercial, the targeted audience, distribution medium, added value for example in form of software for installation and system maintenance and the way that support is handled. Another differenciating factor - and the reason for the existence of this page is the degree of support for amateur radio. This page is trying to give an overview.

Live CDs for one thing are meant for trying out things for Linux beginners as they usually don't change the existing system. They also are useful for testing to what degree a computer system is supported by Linux. Live CDs are usually for the i386 architecture and are frequently based on Knoppix (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/) which against is rooted on Debian. Live CDs are interesting because some are optimized for amateur radio.

== Full distributions ==
=== Debian ===
[http://www.debian.org/ Debian] is supporting 11 different hardware architectures and comes with a vast collection of amateur collection. Basically there are three version of Debian available:

* [http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/ oldstable] (aka Woody) http://packages.debian.org/oldstable/hamradio/ for the predecessor of Sarge security updates will be available until at least May 2006. For new installations generally Sarge is recommended.
* [http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ stable] (aka Sarge) http://packages.debian.org/stable/hamradio/ The current and recommended Debian release. It consists of sofware which is considered stable and well tested and receives updates for usage and security critical problems. 2.4 and 2.6 kernel can be choosen during installation.
* [http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/ testing] (aka Etch) http://packages.debian.org/testing/hamradio/ contains software which is intended for the next stable Debian distribution. Usually works very without problems but isn't automatically updated in case of usage or security critical problems.
* [http://www.debian.org/releases/unstable/ unstable] (aka Sid) http://packages.debian.org/unstable/hamradio/ contains new, not yet well tested programs and versions.

Mailing list:
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-hams/ debian-hams]

=== Gentoo ===
[http://www.gentoo.org/ Gentoo] is a highly configurable and adaptable Linux distribution. The Portage system allows you to choose which packages to install and how to configure them on a very fine-grained level.

Amateur radio software can be found in the portage tree mainly in the categories

* [http://www.gentoo-portage.com/media-radio/ media-radio]
* [http://www.gentoo-portage.com/media-libs/ media-libs] (hamlib)
* [http://www.gentoo-portage.com/dev-libs/ dev-libs] (libax25)
* [http://www.gentoo-portage.com/sci-astronomy/ sci-astronomy] (predict)

Additional packages can be found in the [http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/browser/reviewed sunrise overlay] in the same categories. See the [http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/wiki Sunrise main page] for information how to add that overlay to your system.

For kernel AX.25 support you have to configure and recompile your kernel. Details how to do that can be found in the [http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml Gentoo Linux Handbook].

=== Novell-SuSE / openSUSE ===

* [http://www.opensuse.org/ openSUSE]

The SuSE/openSUSE distributions all have most of the AX25 drivers built into the kernel as modules. Ham radio packages are now available through the build service [http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hamradio/ repositories]. All ham radio packages for SuSE and openSUSE distributions from 10.0 on are now contained in the community repository and are accessed by adding an installation source in YaST. For example, if you are using openSUSE 10.3 you would add an installation source as follows:

<pre>
protocol HTTP
server download.opensuse.org
directory /repositories/hamradio/openSUSE_10.3/
</pre>

Mailing list: For further instructions e-mail the lists' robot opensuse-ham+help@opensuse.org.

NOTE: mkiss is broken in SUSE 10.0.

Novell-SuSE 9.3 and 10.0 i386 amateur radio software packages can be installed through SuSE's system management tool YOU/YAST. All it takes for example for SuSE 9.3 is adding

<pre>
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/ham/9.3-i386
</pre>
as an installation source.

Upto SuSE 9.0 or 9.1 amateur radio applications were still shipping on all installation media. Later versions had them only on the DVD version. For SuSE Live CDs amateur radio software had to be installed from the internet.

SuSE has changed the "time base" in their kernels for SuSE 9.2 and 9.3 without fixing the timing for [[AX.25]] under <tt>/proc/sys/net/ax25</tt>. Without change a connection attempt will timeout after 0.3s instead of 300s. NOTE: This appears to be fixed in 10.0 and on.

=== Redhat / Fedora Core ===
Finally! As of [http://fedoraproject.org/index.html Fedora 8], the core AX.25 modules are now included with the kernels. There is also a growing list of Ham Radio software available. Just enable the main Fedora on-line repository and you have them. Additional packages and information available at [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/AmateurRadio Fedora Amateur Radio].

=== Ubuntu ===
[http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ Ubuntu] is debian-based and is therefore compareable to debian in respect to amateur radio support. Note that in order to install most of the amateur radio related packages, you need to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file and un-comment the lines which talk about the "universe" repository.

== Live-CDs build for amateur radio support ==
=== AR-Knoppix/Afu-Knoppix ===
[http://www.afu-knoppix.de/neu/index.php?lng=1 AR-Knoppix] current version is V3.7 dated January 2005 (based on Knoppix 3.7 from December 2004)

=== Hamshack-Hack ===
[http://hamshack-hack.sourceforge.net/ Hamshack-Hack] is based on Knoppix, too. Release:????

[[de:Distributionen]]

Distributions

2008-08-02T16:35:29Z

DL1JBE: /* Gentoo */

The aggregation of a Linux kernel, other system software such as a boot loader and applications are called '''distributions''' Distributions differ in their ''philosophy'' such as being for free or commercial, the targeted audience, distribution medium, added value for example in form of software for installation and system maintenance and the way that support is handled. Another differenciating factor - and the reason for the existence of this page is the degree of support for amateur radio. This page is trying to give an overview.

Live CDs for one thing are meant for trying out things for Linux beginners as they usually don't change the existing system. They also are useful for testing to what degree a computer system is supported by Linux. Live CDs are usually for the i386 architecture and are frequently based on Knoppix (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/) which against is rooted on Debian. Live CDs are interesting because some are optimized for amateur radio.

== Full distributions ==
=== Debian ===
[http://www.debian.org/ Debian] is supporting 11 different hardware architectures and comes with a vast collection of amateur collection. Basically there are three version of Debian available:

* [http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/ oldstable] (aka Woody) http://packages.debian.org/oldstable/hamradio/ for the predecessor of Sarge security updates will be available until at least May 2006. For new installations generally Sarge is recommended.
* [http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ stable] (aka Sarge) http://packages.debian.org/stable/hamradio/ The current and recommended Debian release. It consists of sofware which is considered stable and well tested and receives updates for usage and security critical problems. 2.4 and 2.6 kernel can be choosen during installation.
* [http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/ testing] (aka Etch) http://packages.debian.org/testing/hamradio/ contains software which is intended for the next stable Debian distribution. Usually works very without problems but isn't automatically updated in case of usage or security critical problems.
* [http://www.debian.org/releases/unstable/ unstable] (aka Sid) http://packages.debian.org/unstable/hamradio/ contains new, not yet well tested programs and versions.

Mailing list:
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-hams/ debian-hams]

=== Gentoo ===
[http://www.gentoo.org/ Gentoo] is a highly configurable and adaptable Linux distribution. The Portage system allows you to choose which packages to install and how to configure them on a very fine-grained level.

Amateur radio software can be found in the portage tree mainly in the categories

* [http://www.gentoo-portage.com/media-radio/ media-radio]
* [http://www.gentoo-portage.com/media-libs/ media-libs] (hamlib)
* [http://www.gentoo-portage.com/dev-libs/ dev-libs] (libax25)

Additional packages can be found in the [http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/browser/reviewed sunrise overlay] in the same categories. See the [http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/wiki Sunrise main page] for information how to add that overlay to your system.

For kernel AX.25 support you have to configure and recompile your kernel. Details how to do that can be found in the [http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml Gentoo Linux Handbook].

=== Novell-SuSE / openSUSE ===

* [http://www.opensuse.org/ openSUSE]

The SuSE/openSUSE distributions all have most of the AX25 drivers built into the kernel as modules. Ham radio packages are now available through the build service [http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hamradio/ repositories]. All ham radio packages for SuSE and openSUSE distributions from 10.0 on are now contained in the community repository and are accessed by adding an installation source in YaST. For example, if you are using openSUSE 10.3 you would add an installation source as follows:

<pre>
protocol HTTP
server download.opensuse.org
directory /repositories/hamradio/openSUSE_10.3/
</pre>

Mailing list: For further instructions e-mail the lists' robot opensuse-ham+help@opensuse.org.

NOTE: mkiss is broken in SUSE 10.0.

Novell-SuSE 9.3 and 10.0 i386 amateur radio software packages can be installed through SuSE's system management tool YOU/YAST. All it takes for example for SuSE 9.3 is adding

<pre>
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/ham/9.3-i386
</pre>
as an installation source.

Upto SuSE 9.0 or 9.1 amateur radio applications were still shipping on all installation media. Later versions had them only on the DVD version. For SuSE Live CDs amateur radio software had to be installed from the internet.

SuSE has changed the "time base" in their kernels for SuSE 9.2 and 9.3 without fixing the timing for [[AX.25]] under <tt>/proc/sys/net/ax25</tt>. Without change a connection attempt will timeout after 0.3s instead of 300s. NOTE: This appears to be fixed in 10.0 and on.

=== Redhat / Fedora Core ===
Finally! As of [http://fedoraproject.org/index.html Fedora 8], the core AX.25 modules are now included with the kernels. There is also a growing list of Ham Radio software available. Just enable the main Fedora on-line repository and you have them. Additional packages and information available at [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/AmateurRadio Fedora Amateur Radio].

=== Ubuntu ===
[http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ Ubuntu] is debian-based and is therefore compareable to debian in respect to amateur radio support. Note that in order to install most of the amateur radio related packages, you need to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file and un-comment the lines which talk about the "universe" repository.

== Live-CDs build for amateur radio support ==
=== AR-Knoppix/Afu-Knoppix ===
[http://www.afu-knoppix.de/neu/index.php?lng=1 AR-Knoppix] current version is V3.7 dated January 2005 (based on Knoppix 3.7 from December 2004)

=== Hamshack-Hack ===
[http://hamshack-hack.sourceforge.net/ Hamshack-Hack] is based on Knoppix, too. Release:????

[[de:Distributionen]]

Distributions

2008-08-02T16:34:40Z

DL1JBE: /* Gentoo */

The aggregation of a Linux kernel, other system software such as a boot loader and applications are called '''distributions''' Distributions differ in their ''philosophy'' such as being for free or commercial, the targeted audience, distribution medium, added value for example in form of software for installation and system maintenance and the way that support is handled. Another differenciating factor - and the reason for the existence of this page is the degree of support for amateur radio. This page is trying to give an overview.

Live CDs for one thing are meant for trying out things for Linux beginners as they usually don't change the existing system. They also are useful for testing to what degree a computer system is supported by Linux. Live CDs are usually for the i386 architecture and are frequently based on Knoppix (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/) which against is rooted on Debian. Live CDs are interesting because some are optimized for amateur radio.

== Full distributions ==
=== Debian ===
[http://www.debian.org/ Debian] is supporting 11 different hardware architectures and comes with a vast collection of amateur collection. Basically there are three version of Debian available:

* [http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/ oldstable] (aka Woody) http://packages.debian.org/oldstable/hamradio/ for the predecessor of Sarge security updates will be available until at least May 2006. For new installations generally Sarge is recommended.
* [http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ stable] (aka Sarge) http://packages.debian.org/stable/hamradio/ The current and recommended Debian release. It consists of sofware which is considered stable and well tested and receives updates for usage and security critical problems. 2.4 and 2.6 kernel can be choosen during installation.
* [http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/ testing] (aka Etch) http://packages.debian.org/testing/hamradio/ contains software which is intended for the next stable Debian distribution. Usually works very without problems but isn't automatically updated in case of usage or security critical problems.
* [http://www.debian.org/releases/unstable/ unstable] (aka Sid) http://packages.debian.org/unstable/hamradio/ contains new, not yet well tested programs and versions.

Mailing list:
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-hams/ debian-hams]

=== Gentoo ===
[http://www.gentoo.org/ Gentoo] is a highly configurable and adaptable Linux distribution. The Portage system allows you to choose which packages to install and how to configure them on a very fine-grained level.

Amateur radio software can be found in the portage tree mainly in the categories

* [http://www.gentoo-portage.com/media-radio/ media-radio]
* [http://www.gentoo-portage.com/media-libs/ media-libs] (hamlib)
* [http://www.gentoo-portage.com/dev-libs/ dev-libs] (libax25)

Additional packages can be found in the [http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/browser/reviewed sunrise overlay] in the same categories. See the [http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/browser Sunrise main page] for information how to add that overlay to your system.

For kernel AX.25 support you have to configure and recompile your kernel. Details how to do that can be found in the [http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml Gentoo Linux Handbook].

=== Novell-SuSE / openSUSE ===

* [http://www.opensuse.org/ openSUSE]

The SuSE/openSUSE distributions all have most of the AX25 drivers built into the kernel as modules. Ham radio packages are now available through the build service [http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hamradio/ repositories]. All ham radio packages for SuSE and openSUSE distributions from 10.0 on are now contained in the community repository and are accessed by adding an installation source in YaST. For example, if you are using openSUSE 10.3 you would add an installation source as follows:

<pre>
protocol HTTP
server download.opensuse.org
directory /repositories/hamradio/openSUSE_10.3/
</pre>

Mailing list: For further instructions e-mail the lists' robot opensuse-ham+help@opensuse.org.

NOTE: mkiss is broken in SUSE 10.0.

Novell-SuSE 9.3 and 10.0 i386 amateur radio software packages can be installed through SuSE's system management tool YOU/YAST. All it takes for example for SuSE 9.3 is adding

<pre>
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/ham/9.3-i386
</pre>
as an installation source.

Upto SuSE 9.0 or 9.1 amateur radio applications were still shipping on all installation media. Later versions had them only on the DVD version. For SuSE Live CDs amateur radio software had to be installed from the internet.

SuSE has changed the "time base" in their kernels for SuSE 9.2 and 9.3 without fixing the timing for [[AX.25]] under <tt>/proc/sys/net/ax25</tt>. Without change a connection attempt will timeout after 0.3s instead of 300s. NOTE: This appears to be fixed in 10.0 and on.

=== Redhat / Fedora Core ===
Finally! As of [http://fedoraproject.org/index.html Fedora 8], the core AX.25 modules are now included with the kernels. There is also a growing list of Ham Radio software available. Just enable the main Fedora on-line repository and you have them. Additional packages and information available at [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/AmateurRadio Fedora Amateur Radio].

=== Ubuntu ===
[http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ Ubuntu] is debian-based and is therefore compareable to debian in respect to amateur radio support. Note that in order to install most of the amateur radio related packages, you need to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file and un-comment the lines which talk about the "universe" repository.

== Live-CDs build for amateur radio support ==
=== AR-Knoppix/Afu-Knoppix ===
[http://www.afu-knoppix.de/neu/index.php?lng=1 AR-Knoppix] current version is V3.7 dated January 2005 (based on Knoppix 3.7 from December 2004)

=== Hamshack-Hack ===
[http://hamshack-hack.sourceforge.net/ Hamshack-Hack] is based on Knoppix, too. Release:????

[[de:Distributionen]]

Distributions

2008-08-02T16:33:07Z

DL1JBE: /* Gentoo */

The aggregation of a Linux kernel, other system software such as a boot loader and applications are called '''distributions''' Distributions differ in their ''philosophy'' such as being for free or commercial, the targeted audience, distribution medium, added value for example in form of software for installation and system maintenance and the way that support is handled. Another differenciating factor - and the reason for the existence of this page is the degree of support for amateur radio. This page is trying to give an overview.

Live CDs for one thing are meant for trying out things for Linux beginners as they usually don't change the existing system. They also are useful for testing to what degree a computer system is supported by Linux. Live CDs are usually for the i386 architecture and are frequently based on Knoppix (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/) which against is rooted on Debian. Live CDs are interesting because some are optimized for amateur radio.

== Full distributions ==
=== Debian ===
[http://www.debian.org/ Debian] is supporting 11 different hardware architectures and comes with a vast collection of amateur collection. Basically there are three version of Debian available:

* [http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/ oldstable] (aka Woody) http://packages.debian.org/oldstable/hamradio/ for the predecessor of Sarge security updates will be available until at least May 2006. For new installations generally Sarge is recommended.
* [http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ stable] (aka Sarge) http://packages.debian.org/stable/hamradio/ The current and recommended Debian release. It consists of sofware which is considered stable and well tested and receives updates for usage and security critical problems. 2.4 and 2.6 kernel can be choosen during installation.
* [http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/ testing] (aka Etch) http://packages.debian.org/testing/hamradio/ contains software which is intended for the next stable Debian distribution. Usually works very without problems but isn't automatically updated in case of usage or security critical problems.
* [http://www.debian.org/releases/unstable/ unstable] (aka Sid) http://packages.debian.org/unstable/hamradio/ contains new, not yet well tested programs and versions.

Mailing list:
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-hams/ debian-hams]

=== Gentoo ===
[http://www.gentoo.org/ Gentoo] is a highly configurable and adaptable Linux distribution. The Portage system allows you to choose which packages to install and how to configure them on a very fine-grained level.

Amateur radio software can be found in the portage tree mainly in the categories

* [http://www.gentoo-portage.com/media-radio/ media-radio]
* [http://www.gentoo-portage.com/media-libs/ media-libs] (hamlib)
* [http://www.gentoo-portage.com/dev-libs/ dev-libs] (libax25)

Additional packages can be found in the [http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/browser/reviewed sunrise overlay] in the same categories. See [http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/browser] for information how to add that overlay to your system.

For kernel AX.25 support you have to configure and recompile your kernel. Details how to do that can be found in the [http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml Gentoo Linux Handbook].

=== Novell-SuSE / openSUSE ===

* [http://www.opensuse.org/ openSUSE]

The SuSE/openSUSE distributions all have most of the AX25 drivers built into the kernel as modules. Ham radio packages are now available through the build service [http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hamradio/ repositories]. All ham radio packages for SuSE and openSUSE distributions from 10.0 on are now contained in the community repository and are accessed by adding an installation source in YaST. For example, if you are using openSUSE 10.3 you would add an installation source as follows:

<pre>
protocol HTTP
server download.opensuse.org
directory /repositories/hamradio/openSUSE_10.3/
</pre>

Mailing list: For further instructions e-mail the lists' robot opensuse-ham+help@opensuse.org.

NOTE: mkiss is broken in SUSE 10.0.

Novell-SuSE 9.3 and 10.0 i386 amateur radio software packages can be installed through SuSE's system management tool YOU/YAST. All it takes for example for SuSE 9.3 is adding

<pre>
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/ham/9.3-i386
</pre>
as an installation source.

Upto SuSE 9.0 or 9.1 amateur radio applications were still shipping on all installation media. Later versions had them only on the DVD version. For SuSE Live CDs amateur radio software had to be installed from the internet.

SuSE has changed the "time base" in their kernels for SuSE 9.2 and 9.3 without fixing the timing for [[AX.25]] under <tt>/proc/sys/net/ax25</tt>. Without change a connection attempt will timeout after 0.3s instead of 300s. NOTE: This appears to be fixed in 10.0 and on.

=== Redhat / Fedora Core ===
Finally! As of [http://fedoraproject.org/index.html Fedora 8], the core AX.25 modules are now included with the kernels. There is also a growing list of Ham Radio software available. Just enable the main Fedora on-line repository and you have them. Additional packages and information available at [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/AmateurRadio Fedora Amateur Radio].

=== Ubuntu ===
[http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ Ubuntu] is debian-based and is therefore compareable to debian in respect to amateur radio support. Note that in order to install most of the amateur radio related packages, you need to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file and un-comment the lines which talk about the "universe" repository.

== Live-CDs build for amateur radio support ==
=== AR-Knoppix/Afu-Knoppix ===
[http://www.afu-knoppix.de/neu/index.php?lng=1 AR-Knoppix] current version is V3.7 dated January 2005 (based on Knoppix 3.7 from December 2004)

=== Hamshack-Hack ===
[http://hamshack-hack.sourceforge.net/ Hamshack-Hack] is based on Knoppix, too. Release:????

[[de:Distributionen]]

Distributions

2008-08-02T16:32:45Z

DL1JBE: /* Gentoo */

The aggregation of a Linux kernel, other system software such as a boot loader and applications are called '''distributions''' Distributions differ in their ''philosophy'' such as being for free or commercial, the targeted audience, distribution medium, added value for example in form of software for installation and system maintenance and the way that support is handled. Another differenciating factor - and the reason for the existence of this page is the degree of support for amateur radio. This page is trying to give an overview.

Live CDs for one thing are meant for trying out things for Linux beginners as they usually don't change the existing system. They also are useful for testing to what degree a computer system is supported by Linux. Live CDs are usually for the i386 architecture and are frequently based on Knoppix (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/) which against is rooted on Debian. Live CDs are interesting because some are optimized for amateur radio.

== Full distributions ==
=== Debian ===
[http://www.debian.org/ Debian] is supporting 11 different hardware architectures and comes with a vast collection of amateur collection. Basically there are three version of Debian available:

* [http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/ oldstable] (aka Woody) http://packages.debian.org/oldstable/hamradio/ for the predecessor of Sarge security updates will be available until at least May 2006. For new installations generally Sarge is recommended.
* [http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ stable] (aka Sarge) http://packages.debian.org/stable/hamradio/ The current and recommended Debian release. It consists of sofware which is considered stable and well tested and receives updates for usage and security critical problems. 2.4 and 2.6 kernel can be choosen during installation.
* [http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/ testing] (aka Etch) http://packages.debian.org/testing/hamradio/ contains software which is intended for the next stable Debian distribution. Usually works very without problems but isn't automatically updated in case of usage or security critical problems.
* [http://www.debian.org/releases/unstable/ unstable] (aka Sid) http://packages.debian.org/unstable/hamradio/ contains new, not yet well tested programs and versions.

Mailing list:
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-hams/ debian-hams]

=== Gentoo ===
[http://www.gentoo.org/ Gentoo] is a highly configurable and adaptable Linux distribution. The Portage system allows you to choose which packages to install and how to configure them on a very fine-grained level.

Amateur radio software can be found in the portage tree mainly in the categories

* [http://www.gentoo-portage.com/media-radio/ media-radio]
* [http://www.gentoo-portage.com/media-libs/ media-libs] (hamlib)
* [http://www.gentoo-portage.com/dev-libs/ dev-libs] (libax25)

Additional packages can be found in the [http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/browser/reviewed sunrise overlay] in the same categories. See [http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/browser] for information how to add that overlay to your system.

For kernel AX.25 support you have to configure and recompile your kernel. Details how to do that can be found in the [http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml Gentoo Linux Handbook].

=== Novell-SuSE / openSUSE ===

* [http://www.opensuse.org/ openSUSE]

The SuSE/openSUSE distributions all have most of the AX25 drivers built into the kernel as modules. Ham radio packages are now available through the build service [http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hamradio/ repositories]. All ham radio packages for SuSE and openSUSE distributions from 10.0 on are now contained in the community repository and are accessed by adding an installation source in YaST. For example, if you are using openSUSE 10.3 you would add an installation source as follows:

<pre>
protocol HTTP
server download.opensuse.org
directory /repositories/hamradio/openSUSE_10.3/
</pre>

Mailing list: For further instructions e-mail the lists' robot opensuse-ham+help@opensuse.org.

NOTE: mkiss is broken in SUSE 10.0.

Novell-SuSE 9.3 and 10.0 i386 amateur radio software packages can be installed through SuSE's system management tool YOU/YAST. All it takes for example for SuSE 9.3 is adding

<pre>
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/ham/9.3-i386
</pre>
as an installation source.

Upto SuSE 9.0 or 9.1 amateur radio applications were still shipping on all installation media. Later versions had them only on the DVD version. For SuSE Live CDs amateur radio software had to be installed from the internet.

SuSE has changed the "time base" in their kernels for SuSE 9.2 and 9.3 without fixing the timing for [[AX.25]] under <tt>/proc/sys/net/ax25</tt>. Without change a connection attempt will timeout after 0.3s instead of 300s. NOTE: This appears to be fixed in 10.0 and on.

=== Redhat / Fedora Core ===
Finally! As of [http://fedoraproject.org/index.html Fedora 8], the core AX.25 modules are now included with the kernels. There is also a growing list of Ham Radio software available. Just enable the main Fedora on-line repository and you have them. Additional packages and information available at [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/AmateurRadio Fedora Amateur Radio].

=== Ubuntu ===
[http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ Ubuntu] is debian-based and is therefore compareable to debian in respect to amateur radio support. Note that in order to install most of the amateur radio related packages, you need to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file and un-comment the lines which talk about the "universe" repository.

== Live-CDs build for amateur radio support ==
=== AR-Knoppix/Afu-Knoppix ===
[http://www.afu-knoppix.de/neu/index.php?lng=1 AR-Knoppix] current version is V3.7 dated January 2005 (based on Knoppix 3.7 from December 2004)

=== Hamshack-Hack ===
[http://hamshack-hack.sourceforge.net/ Hamshack-Hack] is based on Knoppix, too. Release:????

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