@jonty this feels like an insane online tabletop game my partner would contrive to play for 8 months with friends despite only knowing a tiny bit about some of the words and technologies.
Today is the first Patch Tuesday™️ at the OARC Packet Radio Repo!
What is the OARCPRR?
It is a collection of packages for Debian and commonly used derivatives, occasionally with some opinionated patches by me.
What OSes do we support?
Currently, we support Debian Testing (amd64), Debian Stable (amd64), Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (amd64), RaspiOS Stable (armv7/armhf && arm64).
What are the current packages?:
The below packages are available to apt install:
QtTermTCP (0.0.0.69 - nice edition)
QtSoundModem (0.0.0.66 - oarc enhanced beta)
LinBPQ (6.0.24.2)
Direwolf (1.7-dev feat il2p)
Uronode (2.15, hibby's twists edition*)
Hibby's twists include: addition of MOTD for users connecting in via Net/Rom, removal of all ROSE & FLEXNET menu commands and likely some other stuff I've forgotten.
@holgerschurig thanks for your opinions - for note, I already actively work on the Debian project by maintaining the bulk of this code and more in Debian, and use testing on my devices by default as I don’t wish to run unstable and I submit bug reports and patches to other parts of the project.
There are some software packages here that will be too complicated in a few ways to submit upstream, or that the author doesn’t want upstreamed but hold utility for users of this project and I wanted to centralise in a way our group could understand. I’ve taken a few shortcuts here and there too that would make ftp-master never speak to me again!
The testing build is actually built against unstable for the moment, so if people want to run that but I’d rather direct users towards testing if they’re unhappy with the age of stable and involve them in bug reports than tell them to run unstable, which has a less comfortable name for those involved in the project. I’m also uncomfortable putting not-fully-Debian people in the path of partial transitions that the testing hold will prevent.
As you can see from my list of distros, I also target stable.
@gsuberland@jonty wait wait wait you’re saying I’m not meant to put the AIS, GNSS, RADAR and bridge instrumentation for an FPSO on a common DMZ network using moxa unmanaged switches so that it’s easier to make them all communicate?
@gsuberland@jonty you’ll be glad to hear that in the last decade I’ve seen huge leaps forward in network design and security in the energy industry.
Fiber to the platform and wind farm was a generational shift big enough for the majors to realise that they weren’t secure by default and that good design starts on paper years before and is included all the way through.
The usual human factors still exist though, and the companies that aren’t keeping up with the best in the field are definitely numerous.
@carrot I’m currently setting up 9600bd packet data systems using little modems I built over radios so that I can remote control computers at home over a wide are while things make fun crunchy noises to transfer data!
Next step is adding amigas or something into the mix 😁