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BaronJ:
Hi Dave,

WinLink that name rings a bell. If only I could remember why !
I believe that "PICO scope" uses Linux as its operating system. Certainly better than humping a heavy scope around. Unfortunately that was one of the bits of kit that was stolen when the shack got burgled of few years back.

I personally don't care for "Ubuntu" ! I find it a little restrictive but then again "Open SuSE" is very good. Whilst I don't use it at the moment, its major downside for me is the KDE4 desktop. I prefer "Trinity" which is a replacement for KDE3 and is what KDE3 should have become. So I now run a PCLinuxOS distribution which is ready built with "Trinity".

FWIW "Linux" really is just the kernel and is very much the same across different distributions. As far as I am aware the major distributions only make tweaks to the kernel to suit their own flavour. The big differences being the applications and desktop variants. I tend to describe Linux by comparing it with icecream, all icecream is the same its just the flavour that changes.

DavidA:
Baron,

You have to be a bit careful with Pico. I bought my first single channel data logger many years ago and ran it happily on DOS.
I then bought an eight channel version (living in the fast lane now) that was to run on W95. But it was horribly unstable. After consulting Pico I discovered that this particular data-logger wouldn't run on all machines. It was motherboard dependant. I was a bit annoyed as it never mentioned this in the sales literature. I had lost a lot of data due to this thing. To be fair to them, Pico did offer to refund the cost of the unit.

I've just taken delivery of a new Picoscope, forget which one (it's still in the box) but it is the entry level two channel version. Cost £99. This one has XP and Linux versions of the software with it. So I'm hoping for better results .

Dave.

P.S. WinLink was a program that allowed you to control two computers from which ever one of the pair you decided to use as the Master. It came with a special cable to link the two 25 pin D type serial sockets together. All in all a very useful program. I believe you can do the same thing from DOS if you know how.

BaronJ:
Hi Dave,

--- Quote ---P.S. WinLink was a program that allowed you to control two computers from which ever one of the pair you decided to use as the Master. It came with a special cable to link the two 25 pin D type serial sockets together. All in all a very useful program. I believe you can do the same thing from DOS if you know how.

--- End quote ---

Ah yes ! Thanks for the reminder. A crossed over serial cable. I still have a couple kicking around, two "D" plugs on each end so you could plug into 9 or 25 pin D's. Kermit if I remember for data transfer. There was another one that was very popular that ran under DOS, Windows 286 and 3.11 but I don't remember its name. Not sure if it came from Linux originally.

I'm going to have to stop reminiscing or I'll spend all night trying to remember names of things. :hammer: :hammer: :hammer:

raynerd:
For £30, a raspberry pi is a great introduction to Linux!

BaronJ:
Hi Guys,
This is the live CD/DVD all 1.7Gb of it, that I am using at the moment.
There is an updated version due anytime...

http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity/rpm/pclinuxos/ISO/

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