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KC9ASU software

Background
I have been involved with computers and programming for some 20 odd years now. My current prefered operating enviornment is Linux. More information about this operating system on my Linux pages.

Since the C language has been my native language for a couple of decades I find myself writing short programs to simulate or calculate things for my design ideas. As a result I end up with a bunch of little utilities that are mostly one off hack jobs. Usually, the formulas and methods are usuable more generally if there were a proper user interface wrapped around them.

I am sorting through and making these into a collection which I will make available for download.

In using Linux, I am also creating Gnome applications using Glade. For those not familar with these: Gnome is the most popular graphical user interface standard which provides library functions to do most of the dirty work. Glade is a rapid application development tool that makes quick work of laying out buttons, text areas and such for a GUI. Galde generates all of the mundain Gnome code for you so you only have to fill in a few lines of your own code to make a worklng enviornment.

Evenetually, I will have a list of software applications here along with descriptions, required libraries and other documentation.

One of my long term projects is Linux for Amateur Radio (LFAR). This would be a distribution of Linux tailored to Amateur radio use. This is a long and slow process to build a complete distribution. There are litterally hundreds of componets that go into a Linux distribution.