[pskmail] Re: puppy-based live CD for testing pskmail
- From: Larry Levesque <ka1vgm@xxxxxxx>
- To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:34:09 -0400
You are THE MAN!!!!!
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 17:08 +0200, Rein Couperus wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have made a test version of a live CD based on puppy linux, which
>
> * makes it easy to run pskmail on small memory laptops
> * needs no (zero) installation
> * runs fast in RAM on a 192M machine (you can remove the CD from the drive)
> * can save config information to a window$ disk or a USB stick for next
> session
> * downloads relatively fast (only 88M).
>
> This is NOT meant to replace the Mandriva live CD which has much more
> features
> and can be used as a normal Linux OS.
>
> At this point in time there are no bells, whistles and desktop icons, I also
> want
> to make the footprint even smaller in future, and make it look like a PSKMAIL
> only disk.
> I don't know how to remove packages yet :)
>
> What is not available:
> *GPS
> *Mbox compatible email client
>
> The system runs fine on all (9) computers in the house, including the old
> Compaq M700 with
> a pentium III and 192M RAM.
>
> The download is at http://sharon.esrac.ele.tue.nl/pub/linux/ham/pskmail/puppy.
> It is based on version 0.5.alpha2.
>
> Burn it to a CD and boot it... fldigi needs 1024x768 video.
> Start fldigi with './fldigi' from a terminal
> Start pskmail from another terminal with 'cd mail' and './pskmail'
> Then config fldigi and psk_arq (Options, Configuration).
> Restart pskmail after config...
>
> When you shut down puppy will ask you where to save the data (window$ disk,
> USB stick etc.)
>
> I am interested to know what computers it does NOT run on :)
>
> 73,
>
> Rein PA0R
>
>
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Larry Levesque
KA1VGM
Cheshire County EC
NHARES
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