Re: New Raspberry PI Complete OS release

[Marcus Müller]

Hi Glen,

this is nice! Thanks!
If you could tell us what specifically is a blocker for porting to 3.8 (or 
anything later,
for that matter), people might be able to help exactly that. I know you're not 
content
with the changes we've made, but I know how much effort flows into maintaining 
a complex
system such as your Radio Astronomy Operating System, and as I think the 
community
benefits from such projects, my experience is that there'll be experience and 
hands able
to help getting whatever it is that you need ported to a modern GNU Radio, 
especially
because that means you can go and use the GNU Radio that modern Linux distros 
offer "out
of the box" and don't have to roll your own.

Also, don't be afraid: 3.8 is not going away soon, and the migration from 3.8 
to 3.9 is
really not that big of a thing, basically all names stayed the same.

Best regards,
Marcus


On 28.01.21 18:22, Glen I Langston wrote:
> Hello
> 
> We’ve been successful in simultaneous radio astronomy with high schools in 
> the US, including
> California, North Carolina, Illinois, Virginia, New York and West Virginia.
> 
> We’d like to expand to southern hemisphere as well, so that we can get a full 
> sky image
> of the Milky Way.
> 
> We’ve just released a new version of the complete Radio Astronomy Operating 
> system
> for Raspberry Pi 4 computers.   The whole 12 GB Os is compressed to 3.4 GB 
> for download.
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PwjSfVUlV4XNyaDtzrgMiI4Z7IL6HGi2/view?usp=sharing
> 
> The installation guide has the link to the OS as well.  All are on Google 
> Drive
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pStZsguO3UMrP0FhxJJJPFYdkg-Bp8TG3_zIh8MYHUQ/edit?usp=sharing
> 
> The newest version automatically puts all observations on the included Apache 
> web server for
> sharing with other high schools/hobbyists.
> 
> FYI you can measure the effective noise temperature of your first LNA using 
> the software
> included in the OS and described in LightWork Memo 28.
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T6y3XJ9PyVhMCDVL0gaL-mx1BI6bUyEN/view?usp=sharing
> 
> I’m still stuck at GNURadio 3.13.7.5, but have a few C++ programs converted 
> to 3.8
> and running.   Maybe just before 3.8 is obsolete I’ll catch up.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Glen
> 
>