LHS Episode #245: Down with the Sickness

Posted on September 11, 2018September 14, 2018 by Russ Woodman

Welcome to Episode 245 of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts discuss the threat of Hurricane Florence, the new PW-Sat2, amateur radio in lunar orbit, FOSSCON 2018, DXVK, Solus, popular topics in Open Source and more. Thanks for listening.

73 de The LHS Crew

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Show Notes #245: Down with the Sickness

Posted on September 11, 2018October 25, 2018 by Russ Woodman

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Segment 1 (Lead Topic)

Hurricane Watch Net Activation Plans
- Source: https://www.hwn.org/policies/activationplans.html

Segment 2 (Amateur Radio)

PW-Sat2 is Ready for the Autumn Launch
- Source: https://lhs.fyi/8r (Science Poland)

Chinese Lunar Orbit Satellite is Orbiting Allows Radio Amateurs to Download Images
- Source: https://lhs.fyi/8s (GBTimes)

Segment 3 (Open Source)

FOSSCON 2018: Where Open Source and LEGO Collide
- Source: https://lhs.fyi/8t (Hackaday)

DXVK Github not Found and Valve's Copy Throws Error: What's Happening
- Source: https://lhs.fyi/8u (Reddit)

Solus Making Changes
- Source: https://lhs.fyi/8v (Solus)
- Additional Info: https://lhs.fyi/8w (Twitter)

Segment 4 (Linux in the Ham Shack)

PW-Sat2: Ham Desktop Application
- Source: https://lhs.fyi/8x (PW-Sat)
- Additional Info:
  - https://lhs.fyi/8y (clone repo)
  - Install Python dependencies
  - https://lhs.fyi/8z (clone repo)
  - https://lhs.fyi/8A (clone repo)
  - Adjust non-relative paths in these two files: https://lhs.fyi/8B and https://lhs.fyi/8C
  - Correct paths to GSControl repository and HAM-desktop-application repositories in file https://lhs.fyi/8D
  - Run build_linux.sh file from this repository
  - https://lhs.fyi/8E (quick start)

LHS Torrents
- Source: https://lhspodcast.info/torrents (LHS Podcast)

Segment 5 (Social Media Roundup)

Facebook
- Anthony Jeffries
- Terry Bendell
- Jason Reece
- Christopher J LaRue
- Ken Hall
- Vincent DiTizio

Google Plus
- Jeff Jones

Twitter
- @JOSPHAT07802639
- @W8FW_MCARC
- @pa4tw
- @K5RHD
- @rex_ke6mt
- @pnslate
- @tonyc92010

YouTube
- Cecil Madden
- Gary Costanzo
- Michael McShan\
- Barry Furnival
- Ramesh Kumar
- Fred Bouwman
- Dallas Asher
- Robert Ellis

Mailing List
- Carlo, DG6FFG
- Jorgen, OZ5JBJ

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LHS Episode #245: Down with the Sickness

Posted on September 11, 2018September 14, 2018 by Russ Woodman

73 de The LHS Crew

Show Notes #244: Cubic and BitTorrent Deep Dive

Posted on September 4, 2018October 24, 2018 by Russ Woodman

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Segment 1 (Deep Dive)

How It's Made - LHS Distro

CUBIC
- Source: https://lhs.fyi/8m (Launchpad)

Build Script

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ok2cqr/ppa
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:gpredict-team/ppa
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:bladerf/bladerf
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:myriadrf/drivers
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:myriadrf/gnuradio
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:gqrx/gqrx-sdr
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ki7mt/wsjtx
sudo apt install -y mariadb-server
sudo apt install -y cqrlog
sudo apt install -y gqrx-sdr wsjtx hamradio-antenna hamradio-morse hamradio-sdr \
  hamradio-datamodes hamradio-nonamateur hamradio-tasks \
  hamradio-digitalvoice hamradio-packetmodes hamradio-tools \
  hamradio-logging hamradio-rigcontrol hamradio-training \
  hamradio-maintguide hamradio-satellite

Torrents and Seeding
- Public Trackers vs. Private Trackers
- Additional Info:
  - https://lhs.fyi/8n (TransmissionBT)
  - https://lhs.fyi/8o (rtorrent)
  - https://lhs.fyi/8p (opentracker)

Segment 2 (Announcements & Feedback)

Comment on Episode #241 from Dave, KF7JAF

Comment on Episode #239 from K5PDC

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LHS Episode #244: Cubic and BitTorrent Deep Dive

Posted on September 4, 2018September 10, 2018 by Russ Woodman

Hello and welcome to Episode 244 of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts take a deep dive into the LHS Linux distribution, based on Ubuntu. The distribution was created using Cubic and will be distributed, among other methods, by BitTorrent. We take a look at these two technologies and how they can benefit everyone in the Open Source community. Thanks, as always, for listening.

73 de The LHS Crew

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LHS Episode #245: Down with the Sickness

Show Notes #245: Down with the Sickness

LHS Episode #245: Down with the Sickness

Show Notes #244: Cubic and BitTorrent Deep Dive

LHS Episode #244: Cubic and BitTorrent Deep Dive

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