Portable PREDICT Plus r en portabel variant av programmet Predict. Portable PREDICT Plus innehller alla program man behver fr att spra satelliter och kra digital trafik, ryms p tv disketter, bootar upp p disketterna och kr en minimal variant av Linux.
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Announcing the release of Portable PREDICT Plus, a miniature distribution of Linux that includes several ham radio and OSCAR satellite communication applications.
Portable PREDICT Plus boots from a pair of floppy disks and runs entirely in RAM. There s no need to download huge CDROM images, install Linux, compile code, configure a kernel, or re-partition your hard disk to run this software. A third data disk is used to save configuration and home directory files, and can be used to import Keplerian orbital data into the system during setup.
Portable PREDICT Plus includes PREDICT, PB/PG, FODtrack, PacsatTools, MoonTracker, minicom, setserial, and a small collection of AX.25 applications and utilities including kisson, kissoff, kissattach, kissparms, listen, mheard, call, and beacon. There s even a program included to play audio CDs. 🙂
Portable PREDICT Plus is based on a Linux kernel version 2.6.7, and supports a total of eight virtual consoles , providing multiple login sessions that take full advantage of the multitasking and co-operative nature of the operating system and many of the included applications.
Portable PREDICT Plus is capable of supporting moonbounce, analog and digital (Pacsat) satellite operations (including the new ECHO satellite), satellite and terrestrial packet radio communications (including ISS operations), as well as the generation of APRS-style beacons. Portable PREDICT Plus supports KISS and 6pack mode terminal node controllers, and runs on 32-bit PCs from 386s on up.
Portable PREDICT Plus is available in two forms: One that builds the disk sets under Linux, and another that builds the disks under a DOS/Windows environment. The DOS/Windows version contains some extra tutorial information to assist those new to a Linux computing environment.
Downloads are about 3 megabytes, and are available as follows:
Linux version: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/software/Linux/ppplus-0.90.tar.gz
DOS/Windows version: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/software/PC/tracking/pplus090.zip
Portable PREDICT Plus was created by John A. Magliacane, KD2BD, and is released under the GNU General Public License. Additional information is available at: http://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/predict.html
[ANS thanks John, KD2BD for the above information]
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