Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Which LinuxOS to use?-->1.Unbuntu, Fedora, Mandrake, FreeBSD

[Eric Blossom]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:40:37AM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Monday 26 June 2006 18:22, Robert McGwier wrote:
> > I installed Ubunto 5.X and GnuRadio just made and ran after I used apt
> > (synaptic) to download any package GnuRadio could not find.  With Ubunto
> 
> Yes; on Fedora Core 5 I just used 'yum install' in an identical fashion as 
> you 
> would use 'apt-get install' to grab the dependencies, with the singular 
> exception of SDCC, which I built from a source RPM and then installed 
> with 'rpm -i'.  At some point I'm going to put together GNUradio RPMs for 
> FC5; I however track CVS/SVN and that makes it difficult.  I've not built a 
> tarball release in a very long time.

Lamar, if you get the spec files worked out, let me know and I'll cut
new tarballs so that we have corresponding tarballs and rpms.

> My comment about bandwidth (I have a 1.5Mbit DSL at home) is in keeping up 
> with package updates; no one but SuSE deals with this as yet, and I'm not 
> sure if SuSE still does package deltas or not.

I can confirm that SuSE does package deltas.

Eric