Re: [gpsd-dev] Clarifications needed for the time-service HOWTO

[Hal Murray]

address@hidden said:
>> Another point which should be addressed is:
>>   ntpd has builtin support for reading some GPS timing receivers.  How
>>   should one decide to use ntpd's support vs gpsd?  Does it matter?

> If you need to distribute position and time to processes other than ntpd,
> then the answer is obvious: gpsd.

> If you don't need to distribute time and position to other processes, then
> why deal with gpsd at all? 

Another possible reason is that gpsd probably supports some devices that ntpd 
doesn't.


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