[Hackrf-dev] known good laptop running Pentoo.

[Rich S]

Pete,

SDR requires some decent computing power, nothing crazy, but not bottom 
of the line.  I'd recommend at least an i5 core and 8 gig of Ram, 16 
would be better but you can always upgrade later.  Video cards and SDR 
are a moot point unless you're going to use something like gr-fosphor 
requiring Cuda support.

Ubuntu 14 will do the job well, but it can be a bit bloated. Lubuntu is 
less bloated, but it may require you to compile more packages.  The 
trade off between bloat and installation issues may be a deciding factor 
on which version to use.  I have not tried raw Debian, but it should do 
the job well too.

Currently I'm running it well on an Asus G73S and an Alienware M14. The 
Asus runs it without issue and handles gr-fosphor well too.  Of course 
the Alienware runs my SDR without breaking a sweat.

SDR#
http://rtlsdr.org/softwarelinux

Ubuntu 14
http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/

Lubuntu 14
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/14.04/release/

My pybombs install guide is only a few months old, but since HackRF came 
out, some major packages have been added/updated.  I probably need to 
re-write it., but it will get you in the ballpark for setting everything up.

Rich


On 11/8/2014 10:25 PM, C Crane wrote:
>
> It runs fine on my Dell XPS12.
>
> On Nov 8, 2014 8:16 PM, "pete M" <petem001 at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:petem001 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Anyone can confirm to me that they run Pentoo on a laptop?
>
>     And if yes, can you tell me the exact model number, the pentoo
>     version and any other thing you did beside just install pentoo on
>     the machine?
>
>     Tired of turning in circle trying to find a way to run this..
>
>     it is nice to run my hack-rf with sdr#.. but would really like to
>     tx with it.
>
>     Pierre
>     VE2PF
>
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