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LinPac is looking for a new maintainer

Hi all,
I'm sure you have noticed that LinPac is not being developed anymore. There are two basic reasons: the first one - as you could expect - is lack of time since there are too many projects to work on. And the second reason is lack of motivation. At least in my country, in times of Internet, WiFi and other technologies available to everyone, packet radio is dying and there are very few users left. Moreover, the technological gap between the AX.25 and TCP/IP worlds has became huge and I find no point in re-implementing all the services such as mail transport and clients for AX.25 when they are perfectly working in TCP/IP for years. And lastly, there has been no real feedback that would motivate me (but many thanks to those few people that have been sending me bug reports, comments and improvements).

Now, LinPac is looking for someone who will continue. Perhaps in other countries, packet radio is still alive and there is a need for a terminal. If there is somebody, please let me know.

I must apologize to all the people which asked me some questions about LinPac bugs or problem solutions - I am no more able to hunt for bugs and make tests in a real environment. And many thanks to John, Thierry, Jarmo, Waldemar and others who helped me.

73! Radek OK2JBG

Posted by Radek Burget 2006-05-16

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