[chirp_users] New chirp-next build
Dean Berglund
Tue Jan 3 08:23:28 PST 2023
Ken, Thank you for your response. Very nicely suggested. I will look
into getting another machine or as some others have suggested, to
install Linux or Ubuntu in a VM. I have to say you, and most people have
given good and friendly advice and I thank all of you for this. Although
I don't use Chirp often, it has been a nice program to go to when i
needed it and when helping others get their HTs programmed.
73,
Dean - KC9REN
On 1/2/2023 10:21 AM, Ken Hansen wrote:
> Dean,
>
> Your Win7 license/COA allows you to upgrade your Win7 machine to Win10
> for free. If your machine is incapable of running Win10, it is likely
> quite old and a hardware upgrade may be in order.
>
> Windows 7 was released Oct. 2009, and was EOL on Jan 2020. Win 10 was
> released in July of 2015 and will go EOL Oct 2025. If your computer
> shipped with Win7, it is easily 7 years old, and lacking on-going
> support/security patches, is a security problem waiting to happen.
>
> You can certainly choose to continue running Win 7 if you like, but if
> that machine is connected to the internet, the security risks are
> high, and the number of programs that have compatibility issues will
> only increase over time.
>
> If you choose not to upgrade your current system, it is your choice to
> remain in an environment that is unsupported by CHIRP for reasons that
> are based on technical realities, not the capricious whim of the
> developers that can be influenced by the dangling of withheld donations.
>
> The Windows 10 upgrade can be done in-place, assuming your Win7
> machine has sufficient free space on the hard drive. You may want to
> swap a solid state drive (SSD) for your current spinning hard drive
> (HDD) - Win10 has been known to set the machine to "thrashing" when
> running off a HDD, but not when run off an SSD, and an SSD will make
> your old Win7 system more responsive no matter which version of
> Windows you run.
>
> I'm happy to help if want some pointers on upgrading your Win7 system
> to Win10 - my suggestion would be to get an SSD, transfer your Win7
> HDD contents to the SSD, remove the Win7 HDD as a backup, then, once
> you are ready to upgrade, ask windows for an upgrade (several methods
> possible) and see how it goes - you can always fall back to your Win7 HDD.
>
> There are numerous free programs to transfer your Win7 system HD
> contents to a new drive, I quite like the free version of Macrium:
>
> Reflect Free Edition <https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree?mo>
> macrium.com <https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree?mo>
> favicon[1].ico <https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree?mo>
>
> <https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree?mo>
>
> I hope this is helpful,
>
> Good luck, take care,
>
> Ken
>
>> On Jan 2, 2023, at 09:14, Dean Berglund <deanberg2044 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Tony, you are correct although just because Microsoft doesn't
>> support Windows 7 doesn't mean a program can't still work on Windows
>> 7. there are a lot of hams I know that are still using Win-7 like I
>> am and it runs very stable for all my applications except Chirp-Next.
>> So now I have to use the older version of Chirp and am forced to get
>> a newer machine with Windows 10 or 11 just to use the Next version of
>> Chirp. Then I have to reinstall all the other programs onto the new
>> machine. We hams are cheap and/or live on a fixed income. Look at the
>> majority of hams. I do like the fact there is a new version of Chirp,
>> I just wish I could use it on my machine. i was even tempted to send
>> in a donation until I found out I couldn't use it. Like I said, I do
>> wish it would have been more apparent that the new next version of
>> Chirp will not run on Win-7.
>>
>>
>> On 1/2/2023 8:59 AM, Tony Ling wrote:
>>> To be more accurate, it is made for Linux, Mac OS-X and Windows.
>>> Microsoft no longer support Windows 7.
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2 Jan 2023 at 14:31, Dean Berglund <deanberg2044 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I would think it would be good to make it clear this "next"
>>> version of
>>> Chirp is made for Windows 10 and doesn't work on Windows 7.
>>> Dean - KC9REN
>>>
>>> On 1/2/2023 6:25 AM, Rich NE1EE wrote:
>>> > On 2023-01-02 02:09:-0800, you wrote:
>>> >> http://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_next/
>>> > Might be convenient if this dir were in reverse date order...
>>> >
>>> > ~R~
>>> > 72/73 de Rich NE1EE
>>> > The Dusty Key
>>> > On the banks of the Piscataqua
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