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<p>The news feed called Southgate Amateur Radio News and the domain
of southgatearc.org were both taken over by the present owner
(Cale K4HCK) of Amateur Radio Daily in August 2023,</p>
<p>that is why it is still called 'Southgate Amateur Radio news'
here as that is what it is showing in my Thunderbird for the last
20 years or so :-)</p>
<p>Yeah, you are right, will be more careful the next time. At least
everybody is now talking about that article, what is just a
condensed version what was publicized at another site.</p>
<p>Boudewijn VE3TOK</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/27/26 15:44, Steve Stroh wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">This story ran in <b>Amateur Radio Daily</b>:</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><a
href="https://daily.hamweekly.com/2026/04/linux-kernel-removes-ax25-hamradio-subsystem-support/"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://daily.hamweekly.com/2026/04/linux-kernel-removes-ax25-hamradio-subsystem-support/</a></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><i>Not</i> Southgate Amateur Radio News (which
ceased publication upon the death of its author).</div>
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<div dir="ltr">That URL now redirects to Amateur Radio Daily:</div>
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moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://daily.hamweekly.com</a><br>
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<div dir="ltr">Steve Stroh N8GNJ</div>
<div dir="ltr">(Fan of Amateur Radio Daily and Amateur Radio
Weekly)</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Apr 25, 2026 at 08:54:15,
Boudewijn (Bob) Tenty <<a href="mailto:bob@tenty.ca"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">bob@tenty.ca</a>>
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<p>This is from Southgate Amateur Radio News,</p>
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<p>Earlier today Linus Torvalds <a
href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=64edfa65062dc4509ba75978116b2f6d392346f5"
moz-do-not-send="true">merged</a> a pull request to
<a
href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Removes-Old-Net"
moz-do-not-send="true">remove AX.25 and hamradio
subsystem support from the Linux kernel</a>. While
the headline sounds ominous, most modern AX.25
implementations occur in software at the user level
without relying on the kernel level implementation. <a
href="https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf"
moz-do-not-send="true">Direwolf</a>, for example,
does not require kernel level AX.25 support. Other
software relying on AX.25 may take advantage of
dedicated AX.25 Python libraries.</p>
<p>The change comes as a result of AI based bug
detection services capable of identifying critical
issues among code that may no longer be maintained or
utilized by end users. Torvalds <a
href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=64edfa65062dc4509ba75978116b2f6d392346f5"
moz-do-not-send="true">stated</a> that the amateur
radio related code in the Linux kernel no longer had
any active maintainers:</p>
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<p>Amateur radio did have occasional users (or so I
think) but most users switched to user space
implementations since its all super slow stuff.
Nobody stepped up to maintain the kernel code.</p>
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<p>According to <a
href="https://linux-commits-search.typesense.org/?commits%5Bquery%5D=ax25"
moz-do-not-send="true">typesense</a> the last Linux
kernel commit related to AX.25 was 6 years ago.</p>
<p>Additional code removed includes ISDN support, <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_mouse"
moz-do-not-send="true">bus mouse</a> support, and
various network drivers including support for old 3Com
devices.</p>
<p>Source: <a
href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Removes-Old-Net"
moz-do-not-send="true">Phoronix</a></p>
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<p>We are toasted because all my programs are glued
together by the ax25 utilities.</p>
<p>Boudewijn VE3TOK</p>
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