[pskmail] Re: Developers
- From: "Bill - N8ET" <n8et@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Per Crusefalk" <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:48:48 -0500
Hi Per and the list -
Glad you are getting settled in!
A few random comments in no particular order -
Background - I have been trying to get PSKmail going so I can use it to
communicate from my sailboat in the summertime while the XYL and I are
cruising away from home - usually in the northern part of the Great Lakes. I
am a complete greenhorn when it comes to Linux, so I am climbing the
Linux learning curve while trying to get PSKmail going. I intend to switch to
Linux at some time in the future, so I have two reasons to learn more about
Linux.
I tried the Mandriva LiveCD last spring, but found it somewhat difficult to get
going (I did not try very hard!) so I did not get PSKmail running in time for
our summer cruise. I tired the Puppy CD when that came out a couple
weeks ago, and found that it loaded very easily and quickly, and everything
on the three PC's I tried it on worked! Sound, network, etc. I was able to
concentrate on PSKmail. Withing minutes of hooking the PC to the radio I
had connected to two servers here in the US.
To make my learning precess a bit easier, I set up the client on one PC and
the server on another here at home and interconnected them with audio
cables. That worked well. I did have some issues with audio levels, so I set
them each time I brought the system up.
I did find some issues with the setup, and Rein /Per are taking care of these
issues. A new Puppy ISO image should come out shortly with the fixes, and
hopefully then I will have something that works in my setup.
When I am comfortable that my setup is working, I will do a writeup on what
it took for me to get going with both the client and server, and some
documentation on the use of both. In talking with Rein - I discovered there
are things in PSKmail that I had not seen anywhere in any of the
documentation. I'll try to get them all documented in one spot.
I will be installing Ubuntu on my main PC - hopefully today - I want to install
a second hard drive for Ubuntu and set up a dual boot system. Then I can
start learning about the "how to" of installing software. I also intend to
keep
busy with the Puppy CD on the laptop. I have been running one laptop off
the CD, and one I installed Puppy on and have been running from the hard
drive. From where I sit - Puppy was by far the easiest system for a Linux
Rookie to get up and running (from the CD or doing the install to the Hard
Drive). I hope we continue to improve and develop the Puppy CD as the
main mechanism for getting PSKmail out to the world.
'Nuff said - I need to go pick up another hard drive!
> Hi all,
>
> The list is too quiet for me now so I decided to try to change that ;-)
>
> I have started to get settled at my new QTH (it only took abt months)
> and that means I have started to have some time for ham radio once agn. I
> have started looking at what I would like to improve on the project and
> have just added tls auth for using googles smtp server with pskmail. I am
> also thinking abt what I can do next. If there are others out there that
> would like to participate then I just want to mention a few words about
> how you may do so.
>
> As this is an open source project you can just download the source and
> start, you can also use the project subversion server where all the latest
> stuff should be available. Subversion is a revision control system and
> more info on that is available here:
> http://subversion.tigris.org/
>
> The project subversion repository has a web interface here:
> http://www.crusefalk.se/websvn/
>
> If you prefer to use a real client for subversion then the url for that is:
> svn://www.crusefalk.se/websvn
>
> Also, I'm curious abt what you would like to see done next? What could be
> done better and what essential feature may be missing?
> I know we have the wiki for these things but perhaps its easier to discuss
> it here first and then post on the wiki?
>
> 73 de Per, sm0rwo
>
> P.s. Developers are essential, even Steve Ballmer realizes that:
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6304687408656696643
>
>
>
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73 - Bill - N8ET
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