Show Notes #514: Stupidity and Enlightenment

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Segment 2 (Amateur Radio)

  • Two New Digitpeating Amateur Radio Satellites Approved
  • The Cheap Radio Hack That Disrupted Poland's Railway System

Segment 3 (Open Source)

  • Bodhi Linux 7 brings Enlightenment to Ubuntu
  • A Framework for Open Source Evaluation

Segment 4 (Linux in the Ham Shack)

Segment 5 (Announcements & Feedback)

  • Members Only Feed Broken
    • For Paypal subscribers, the former members-only RSS feed is broken. The plugin is no longer in development and with recent updates, it stopped working. We are looking at a replacement and/or workaround. For Patreons, you can use Patreon to receive the early, no music feed.

Segment 6 (New Subscribers, New Supporters & Live Participants)

  • Subscribers and Patreons
    • John Stacie
  • Facebook
    • Ronald Jocheim, Sr.
    • Warren Erik
    • Rory Griffin
    • Jerry Dotson
  • Twitter
    • @swlistener
    • @Sigmund46221199
  • Mastodon
    • @pasimako
    • @dm5wk
    • @SM1ZCA
    • @KA1DBE
    • @dlh
  • YouTube
    • Bjorn Broman
  • Mailing List
    • NO7E
  • Discord
    • WormFood
    • Chungalda
  • Live Chat
    • Ted, WA0EIR
    • Darren, VK6EK
    • Steve, KA7HVT
    • Stacey, KB7YS
    • Winston, KD2WLL
    • Mike, K6GTE

LHS Episode #513: DragonOS Deep Dive

Hello and welcome to the 513th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts review the radio-centric Linux distribution known as DragonOS. Based on Ubuntu, it has a focus on radio spectrum and SDR applications. All aspects of the OS are explored from downloading, to installation to operation to post-installation configuration and impressions. Thank you for listening and have a great week.

73 de The LHS Crew

LHS Episode #513: DragonOS Deep Dive

Hello and welcome to the 513th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts review the radio-centric Linux distribution known as DragonOS. Based on Ubuntu, it has a focus on radio spectrum and SDR applications. All aspects of the OS are explored from downloading, to installation to operation to post-installation configuration and impressions. Thank you for listening and have a great week.

73 de The LHS Crew

LHS Episode #513: DragonOS Deep Dive

Hello and welcome to the 513th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts review the radio-centric Linux distribution known as DragonOS. Based on Ubuntu, it has a focus on radio spectrum and SDR applications. All aspects of the OS are explored from downloading, to installation to operation to post-installation configuration and impressions. Thank you for listening and have a great week.

73 de The LHS Crew

Show Notes #513: DragonOS Deep Dive

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Segment 1 (Deep Dive)

  • DragonOS
  • Topics and Notes
    • Based on Ubuntu Jammy (22.04)
    • Installation looks just like Ubuntu install
    • Desktop is LXQt, Desktop manager is sddm (The recommended display manager for LXQt), Xserver is Xorg
    • CQRlog (and all other loggers?) not included in base install
    • Network managed by netplan shunted to NetworkManager
    • Default user already member of groups dialout, sudo, audio, plugdev, direwolf, sambashare
    • Default background mildly annoying but better than other ham-related distros
    • wsjt-x, fldigi installed by default, wfview was not
    • Lots of esoteric software and things I haven't heard of
    • TempestSDR
    • GNU Radio (many options)
    • Notice that many apps launch with a terminal window and sometimes do not actually start
    • Gridtracker is installed by default
    • xrdp FTW

Segment 3 (New Subscribers, New Supporters & Live Participants)

  • Subscribers and Patreons
    • John Julian
    • Ken Betenia
  • Facebook
    • Matthew Lauerty
    • Frank Jenkins
    • John Julian
  • YouTube
    • Don Saw
    • Matias Graino
    • Byron Pangburn
  • Discord
    • zer0day
    • MojoKD9YPK
    • Mullet
    • Saxa
    • VA7WY
  • Mastodon
    • @Saxaln
    • @kb9lxh
    • @kd4wov
    • @ei6kw
    • @jornfranke
    • @NO7E
    • @RickTRSWE
  • Mailing List
    • Dale Farnsworth
    • KK7LPM
    • KY4HJ
    • Ray McGavran
    • W7JPJ
  • Live Chat
    • Darren, VK6EK
    • Ted, WA0EIR
    • Bill, N3AJ
    • Don, KB2YSI
    • Steve, KA7HVT
    • Jon, K1BTZ
    • Winston, KD2WLL