Hello,

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recently I purchased and reflashed Lenovo N23, 4GB RAM, 16 GB flash. Running JS8Call to my complete satisfaction, using QDX and/or QMX transceiver (both have built-in USB CDC's for serial and sound interface). The chromebook runs from full charge at least 9 hours, maybe more. With QMX, QDX except battery there are no extra boxes or parts to take in my backpack, such as digirig etc.

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I tried to install VARA (because it's a standard in one of emcomm groups I participate in) but no success, the reason being that VARA is available as Win32 app only and the necessary libraries don't fit into the 16 GB disk. Were it 32 GB or were VARA also a x64 app everything would be fine. I tried to convince the author, EA5HVK, to make a 64 bit build alongside the 32 bit version but he seems to be reluctant to accept any proposals. I wonder what will he do after 32-bit layer disappears from Windows (after 2025).

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I just received a used Dell Chromebook 11 3180 with 32 GB flash, reflashed it after some struggle and so far everything seems to work. I have not yet started installing the VARA stuff.

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Would you know of another solution as alternative to hunting 32 gig chromebook in the 2nd hand market? "Install Windows to avoid headache" variant has already been taken by Jose (EA5HVK) but he doesn't know that due to Windows quirks our radio club 24/7 JS8 is out of service every couple of days ;-)?

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73 Jindra OK4RM

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Hi Jindra

Not an expert on this so mainly thinking out loud.?

I assume you space issue on the 16GB came from installing wine32 and the i386 linux architecture on top of the 64bit? (ie sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386) There doesn't seem to be a wine64 dependency on the wine32 installation (in Debian) so maybe see if wine32 ONLY can be installed? (assuming you don't want to run any 64bit Windows programs). WineHQ however has lots of useful info. Maybe think about doing a manual strip of unused applications/libraries first?

Cheers Bob VK2YQA

On 7/2/25 17:32, OK4RM via wrote:

Hello,

?

recently I purchased and reflashed Lenovo N23, 4GB RAM, 16 GB flash. Running JS8Call to my complete satisfaction, using QDX and/or QMX transceiver (both have built-in USB CDC's for serial and sound interface). The chromebook runs from full charge at least 9 hours, maybe more. With QMX, QDX except battery there are no extra boxes or parts to take in my backpack, such as digirig etc.

?

I tried to install VARA (because it's a standard in one of emcomm groups I participate in) but no success, the reason being that VARA is available as Win32 app only and the necessary libraries don't fit into the 16 GB disk. Were it 32 GB or were VARA also a x64 app everything would be fine. I tried to convince the author, EA5HVK, to make a 64 bit build alongside the 32 bit version but he seems to be reluctant to accept any proposals. I wonder what will he do after 32-bit layer disappears from Windows (after 2025).

?

I just received a used Dell Chromebook 11 3180 with 32 GB flash, reflashed it after some struggle and so far everything seems to work. I have not yet started installing the VARA stuff.

?

Would you know of another solution as alternative to hunting 32 gig chromebook in the 2nd hand market? "Install Windows to avoid headache" variant has already been taken by Jose (EA5HVK) but he doesn't know that due to Windows quirks our radio club 24/7 JS8 is out of service every couple of days ;-)?

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73 Jindra OK4RM