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recently I purchased and reflashed Lenovo N23, 4GB RAM, 16 GB flash. Running JS8Call to my complete satisfaction, using QDX and/or QMX transceiver (both have built-in USB CDC's for serial and sound interface). The chromebook runs from full charge at least 9 hours, maybe more. With QMX, QDX except battery there are no extra boxes or parts to take in my backpack, such as digirig etc.
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I tried to install VARA (because it's a standard in one of emcomm groups I participate in) but no success, the reason being that VARA is available as Win32 app only and the necessary libraries don't fit into the 16 GB disk. Were it 32 GB or were VARA also a x64 app everything would be fine.
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I am expecting Dell Chromebook 11 3180 with 32 GB flash, I will let you know how I succeeded with that one.
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Just my two cents. IMHO for field operations like SOTA, WWFF, ARES chromebook fits nicely - light, resilient, long battery life, inexpensive to buy. No bells and whistles, of course, just the software you need in the field.
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On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM, Greg Cheng - KC3SMW wrote:
Due to my own personal experience I would never recommend a chromebook for Linux install beyond experimentation.? I have had several chromebooks and none of them ran efficiently or effectively any Linux software I wanted it to run.? Due to the lack of driver support, nuetured hardware, and other things I have abandoned chromebooks altogether in favor of used laptops or Windows PCs, and then installing a fullfledged Linux OS.? My flavor is Ubuntu.?
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Based on your description you stated you unzipped and nothing...??
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I have a couple of questions.? FLdigi in Linux is distributed as a build from source app.? Meaning you have to compile it before you can run it.??
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What flavor of Linux is on your Chromebook? (Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, etc)?
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Did you follow the Sourceforge Wiki HOWTO instructions to compile and install FLDigi??
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If you didn't compile it, it won't run.??
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