%% Debian GNU/Linux in the Ham Shack %% Copyright 2002 Bdale Garbee %% %% Title: %% %% Debian GNU/Linux in the Ham Shack %% %% Abstract: %% %% The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made %% common cause to create a free operating system. Since 1993, the %% project has grown to be the largest Open Source project ever, with %% the recent Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 release delivering thousands of %% software packages on 11 different processor architectures. Bdale %% Garbee is the current Debian Project Leader, and will give an overview %% of the Debian project, and then talk about how he uses Debian as his %% primary computing platform for amateur radio activities. %% %% %% Define the fonts we will use %% %deffont "standard" tfont "Arial.ttf" %deffont "typewriter" tfont "Times_New_Roman.ttf" %deffont "fixed" xfont "terminal" %% %% Default settings for special lines %% %default 1 leftfill, fore "black", back "white", bimage "background.bmp" %default 2 size 7, vgap 10, prefix " ", font "standard" %default 3 size 2, bar "gray70", vgap 10 %default 4 size 5, vgap 30, font "standard" %% %% Default settings for indented lines %% %tab 1 size 5, vgap 40, prefix " ", icon box "green" 50 %tab 2 size 4, vgap 40, prefix " ", icon arc "red" 50 %tab 3 size 3, vgap 40, prefix " ", icon delta3 "blue" 40 %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page %nodefault, font "standard", fore "black", back "white", bimage "background.bmp" %center Debian GNU/Linux in the Ham Shack %size 6 Bdale Garbee, KB0G %size 5 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Objectives for Today What is the Debian project? Why choose Debian for your ham shack? Some examples... This is NOT an introduction to using Debian. Please see the paper flyer, and just give Debian a try! I will be happy to answer questions on this at the end of the talk, though! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page What is Debian? %font "typewriter" `The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system.' %font "standard" More specifically, Debian: is one of the most popular GNU/Linux distributions runs on the most architectures is a completely open volunteer organization is quite international is the largest GNU/Linux distribution works with companies to develop and maintain software is Focused on Freedom is well represented in the free software world %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Things Debian is Known For Excellent package management system High quality Quick updates for security issues Excellent support through mailing lists, IRC, etc Open bug tracking system Debian "stable releases" are actually stable... %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Debian Social Contract Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software We Will Give Back to the Free Software Community We Won't Hide Problems Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software Programs That Don't Meet Our Free-Software Standards %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page A Few Debian Statistics Debian is a project of Software in the Public Interest 11 released architectures alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips/mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc other ports in progress Hitachi SuperH AMD x86-64 only distribution also working with the HURD 1080 people 6667 source packages 10637 binary packages %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Number of Developers Over Time %center, image "developers.gif" 0 130 130 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Map of Debian Developer Locations %center, image "developers.map.jpeg" 0 130 130 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Package Count Over Time %center, image "packages.gif" 0 130 130 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KB0G - 6 Architectures Running Debian %center, image "dscf0003.jpg" 0 54 54 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page So, Why use Debian in the Shack? Experimentation is a key objective of the amateur service, and Open Source is to software what published schematics are to hardware. Because it's free (beer and speech!) Debian operates like a big ham radio project Explicit ham radio application section The debian-hams mailing list Lots of (free!) high-quality development tools... %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Ham Radio Packages in Debian See http://packages.debian.org/stable/hamradio/ ... Satellite tracking AO-40 telemetry decoding AX.25 and APRS CW, PSK-31, Fax, Slow-scan Radio interface/control Antenna modeling Clock, Maps, Bearings Config daemon for Gracilis PackeTen Many programs outside the hamradio section... Development tools for PIC, AVR, etc... %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Debian Ham Project http://debianham.sunsite.dk A minimized Debian distribution for contest logging Boots from floppy on 386 or better, runs from ram disk Intended as an Open Source alternative to K1EA's CT Uses the full-featured TLF logging program by PA0RCT %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Some Examples Bdale Garbee, KB0G Antenna tracking, AO-40 telemetry, "Everything!" John Ackermann, N8UR Debian/KDE/Openoffice.org laptop used for presentations, APRS Jaye Inabnit, KE6SLS SSTV, PSK-31, etc Peter Lemken, DF5JT XPlanet Joop Stakenborg, PA3ABA logging, dx-cluster Joaquin Seoane Health and welfare networks using Debian and AX.25 links! http://www.ehas.org %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Final Testing of AO-40 in Kourou %center, image "dscf0002.jpg" 0 54 54 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KB0G's Satellite Antennas %center, image "dscf0025.jpg" 0 54 54 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KB0G's Shack %center, image "dscf0006.jpg" 0 54 54 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KE6SLS %center, image "KDE_Ham_Menu.png" 0 85 85 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KE6SLS %center, image "G-psk31.png" 0 85 85 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KE6SLS %center, image "KDE1_with_kworldclock_and_psk31_circuit_diagram.jpg" 0 75 75 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KE6SLS %center, image "LinPsk.png" 0 85 85 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KE6SLS %center, image "PhaseShift.png" 0 85 85 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KE6SLS %center, image "Qsstv.png" 0 85 85 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KE6SLS %center, image "Seti_pic.png" 0 85 85 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KE6SLS %center, image "TWLog_logging_program_on_kde2.22.png" 0 85 85 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KE6SLS %center, image "TWpsk_on_kde2.22.png" 0 85 85 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KE6SLS %center, image "Xcwcp_CW_Practice_code_generator.png" 0 85 85 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KE6SLS %center, image "Xlog_logger_program_kde2.22.png" 0 85 85 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page KE6SLS %center, image "rtty_form.png" 0 85 85 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page DF5JT %center, image "df5jt.jpg" 0 54 54 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page PA4TU %center, image "screenshot-pa4tu.png" 0 64 64 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page Health and Welfare Network %center, image "mapa.png" 0 175 175 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page %center, image "CS_Shucush_y_torre_rot.jpg" 0 80 80 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page %center, image "Subiendo_shungo_en_Panam.jpg" 0 60 60 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page %center, image "ServerAndBatteryLoader.jpg" 0 190 190 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page %center, image "Servidor_v3.jpg" 0 150 150 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page %center, image "Servidor_por_dentro.jpg" 0 70 70 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page %center, image "Medico_concentrado_en_PC.jpg" 0 58 58 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page %center, image "Tecnico_con_correo.jpg" 0 80 80 1 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page To Learn More %center %size 10 http://www.debian.org/ debian-hams mailing list www.gag.com/~bdale/talks/