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Fwd: Re: AX25 and related software's future in Debian
by David Ranch 04 May '12

04 May '12

Hello Everyone, There is a thread going on in the linux-hams@vger list where the Debian folks are thinking about renaming the long standing AX.25 "node" program in favor of the new Node.JS program as well as thoughts of deeper changes to the AX.25 packages. http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-hams/ Though Debian is a smaller distribution, it's influence is far reaching to many Debian-related distros (Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) The current HAM packages maintainer is seeking input and what better list to get potential Linux feedback than the AMPR list! I encourage you to join the conversation and be heard! --David -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: AX25 and related software's future in Debian Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 11:14:24 -0400 From: Patrick Ouellette <pat(a)flying-gecko.net> To: Dan Smith <dsmith(a)danplanet.com> CC: linux-hams(a)vger.kernel.org, debian-hams(a)lists.debian.org, ralf(a)linux-mips.org, ax25(a)x-berg.in-berlin.de (I added Ralf DL5RB and Thomas DL9SAU to the Cc: line. They are the upstream maintainers of ax25 and I am not sure if they have seen the thread/discussions) On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 07:06:33AM -0700, Dan Smith wrote: > > > So, what inspiration can you give me to keep me from packing up the tent? > > Some of us continue to develop and deploy new systems based on this > stuff. Linux provides the most modern way to integrate AX.25 with other > IP networks (IMHO) and Debian provides a good platform on which to > build. Yes, you and I can install our own stacks, but if it goes away > from the base distro, it will be harder to encourage other folks to do > the same. > Dan, Playing Devil's advocate - the argument has been put forth in the "other discussion" that according to popcon (the Debian popularity contest), node has 81 installs, and 17 reporting as "active" while the nodejs package has 720 installs with 163 reporting as "active." So their conclusion is the node package is only used by a small community. Looking at the ax25 packages: libax25 - 234 installs/ 49 active ax25-tools - 74/19 ax25-xtools - 45/6 ax25-apps - 74/17 other ham packages depending on libax25: xastir - 89/16 aprsd - 33/13 ax25mail-utils - 22/4 fbb -16/3 linamc - 13/0 and a couple of other ham packages: hamlib - 349/119 qsstv - 80/8 gmfsk - 64/10 fldigi - 113/24 xlog - 72/12 gpredict - 650/90 for comparison, the bash shell - 121423/110245 judging by these numbers (and let me make it CLEAR I do not put much stock in them personally since the package does not have to be installed, the machine has to have an internet connection, and the file system has to record atime - so low power systems or ssd drive systems with the mount option noatime don't count) hamlib *might* currently be *safe* in terms of keeping it's name, and clearly is used by others. The other issue, the one I was thinking of was the active user counts. With the exception of hamlib and gpredict they are all low double digit or even single digit numbers. Even if I believe there are many more users of the software, I have no way to prove it. I know there are many Debian and Debian based systems running ax25. Unfortunately "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" and the ax25 users haven't been squeaking. Flawed as it is, the "other side" will continue to use the only tool they have - popcon - to justify their actions in disregarding the place of long term packages in the distribution in favor of the next new / hot thing. I would like to run my tried and true systems as they are, and not have to reinvent the wheel and debug scripts every few years when this issue comes up again. The same thing happened with listen in Debian, so now it is axlisten while the music player now has the executable named listen. Everyone agreed then that "listen" was a generic name and should not really be used, and yet it is. You claim the existence of the packages in Debian encourages others to try ax25, if this is so where are these people? Pat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in the body of a message tomajordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info athttp://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

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Introducing YaCy Searchengine to HAMNET
by Michael Przybilla 04 May '12

04 May '12

Hi Folks I'd like to introduce a YaCy System as a distributed search engine for the HAMNET The important information on how to use it can be found here on our Webserver at DB0FHW: http://www.afu-ag.de/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83… If you let Google translate the page, unfortunatelly, you do not get a very good translation... http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-… ... So I'll explain it in a bit more detail. YaCy is a free dezentralized search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet General information can be found here: http://yacy.net/en/ ... So lets consider HAMNET as a kind of intranet. We defined a root.unit for the system at DB0FHW, which has a quite good connection to the german HAMNET, an anybody can now connect a peer to this root.unit This unit is shared to all peers, so the network will stay alive, even if DB0FHW goes down. Peers temporarely connect each other like a full mesh, so a peer only needs to know one other peer to find its way back into the network. How do you connect peers now: 1. Download and install YaCy http://yacy.net/en/index.html 2. Do not start the YaCy Service, yet. 3. Edit the line "network.unit.definition" in your file "defaults/yacy.init". It should point to this URL now: http://yacy.db0fhw.ampr.org:8090/yacy.hamnet.unit 4. Start the YaCy Service Philosophy: There sould be (minimum) one YaCy peer in each AS of the HAMNET, crawling the Servers INSIDE ist own AS! How often you want to crawl is your free choice. Just depending on the changes of the servers content. It it holds "hot news", you may host you yacy peer quite close to it an crawl every hour. If content changes weekly, crawl weekly... (if you have a huge AS, you may have more peers and define which of them is crawling which server) So... Sounds not that hard at the end ;-) Give it a try 73 Micha, DD2MIC

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