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NEW: Ubuntu PPAs for AlacrittyNEW: Trumpists Kicking the Hornets Nest
NEW: Introduction to Catbird Linux
NEW: Skywave Linux Updated to ver 4.1
i3wm: Using i3-ipc to Float Windows
How to Record from WebSDR and OpenWebRX Sites
Programmatic RTL-SDR Frequency Claibration
Public KiwiSDR Lists
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17: Simply Mass Murder
The Anonymous Cathay Pacific Employee Letter to Hong Kong
For For Cathay Crews Crossing Borders With Electronics
Photo Gallery 9: The New Life Movement in China, 1944
E Pluribus Unum: From Many, One, Dammit
HFGCS Quick Tune SDR List
The Robert Mueller Iron Triangle Speech
A Rant About One Party Rule
Best OpenWebRX and WebSDR Servers
SDR School via YouTube
ADALM-PlutoSDR on Linux Systems
MOFO Linux: Defeating State Censorship and Surveillance
Linux: Distros, Code, and Nifty Software
NEW: Introduction to Catbird LinuxNEW: Skywave Linux Updated to ver 4.1
NEW: i3wm: Using i3-ipc to Float Windows
Skywave Linux: HPSDR, WebSDR, and RTL-SDR ready to run.
Siduction Linux with the Cinnamon Desktop
Siduction Linux with the LXQT Desktop
Andy's Ham Radio Linux 15 and QtRadio
Booting Multiple Linux Disc Images with Grub2
Porteus Linux Hard Drive Installation
UPDATED: MOFO Linux - For Unrestricted Internet
Aptosid with LXDE
Asus EeePC 1215N with Linux
Autostart Tweaks for KDE3 and KDE4
Broadband Speed Tweaks For Linux
Fixing the Firefox 3 Rendering Bug
Linux on Solid State Drives
Linux Wireless Interface Driver Updates
Setting Polkit to Automount USB Devices
Sidux with LXDE
Fixing Skype Inverted Video
SLAX Remix - kernel upgrades
Flash Drive Linux - Introduction
Flash Drive Knoppix 5.3 - Part 1
Flash Drive Knoppix 5.3 - Part 2
Flash Drive Knoppix 6.0 - Part 1
Flash Drive Knoppix 6.0 - Part 2
Flash Drive SLAX - Part 1
Flash Drive SLAX - Part 2
Flash Drive Bluewhite64 - Part 1
Flash Drive Bluewhite64 - Part 2
Flash Drive Linux - Basic Customization
SLAX Customization - Part 1
SLAX Customization - Part 2
Bluewhite64 Customization - Part 1
Bluewhite64 Customization - Part 2
Long Range Wi-Fi
Basics of Long Range Wireless NetworkingLinear Focus Parabolic Wi Fi Antenna
High Gain Wi Fi Dish Antenna
High Gain Helical Wi Fi Antenna
High Gain Yagi Wi Fi Antenna
High Power Wireless Adapters
Wi Fi Extender Antenna for Routers
Belkin F5D7050 External Wi Fi Antenna
Linksys WUSB54GC External Antenna Mod
Compat Wireless Linux Drivers
Installing WPA_Supplicant for Wi-Fi Security
Linux Wireless Interface Driver Updates
Linux Wireless Interface Driver Support
NetworkManager and Consolekit
RT73 Wireless Drivers for Linux Kernel 2.6.27+
RT2860 Wireless Drivers for Linux Kernel 2.6.27+
Radio: Amateur Radio, Aero Radio, Shortwave, etc
NEW: Programmatic RTL-SDR Frequency ClaibrationNEW: Public KiwiSDR Lists
NEW: GHFS Quick Tune SDR List
UPDATED: Best OpenWebRX and WebSDR Servers
UPDATED: Skywave Linux: HPSDR, WebSDR, and RTL-SDR ready to run.
CubicSDR on Debian, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint
Dump1090 for Linux Mint 17.1 and Siduction 2014.1
Software Defined Radio - An Introduction
QS1R Direct Sampling SDR
Chaining SDR Audio Interfaces
FLEX-6000 Direct Sampling SDR
UPDATED: RTL2832 Software Defined Radio
WebSDR Digimode Reception
Enabling FLASH in Jack Audio
Realtime Software Audio Processing
Liberation Technology
MOFO Linux - For Unrestricted InternetVeracrypt Encryption for Linux
Veracrypt Encryption for Windows
Using Google Within China
Popcorn Time and Flixtor for Uncensored Streaming Media
DNS Encryption using DNSCrypt
Galaxy Nexus Privacy and Robustness Enhancements
Galaxy SIII Privacy and Robustness Enhancements
Flash Drive Encryption for Linux
Flash Drive Encryption for Windows
Multihop VPN Connections for Strong Internet Privacy
Open and Free DNS Server List
OpenVPN Cloaking against Deep Packet Inspection The Serval Mesh Phone Project
Skype's Robust Security
Man in the Middle Wireless Security Risks
Wireless Security and Surveillance
Digital Audio
Adjusting Audio Dynamics in VLCBacking Track Prep Guide
Ipod Music Processing Guide
How To Record Record Live Music Performances
Realtime Software Audio Processing
Chaining SDR Audio Interfaces
Aerospace Radio, Aviation, Pontification, and Opinion
NEW: Trumpists Kicking the Hornets NestNEW: The Anonymous Cathay Pacific Employee Letter to Hong Kong
NEW: For For Cathay Crews Crossing Borders With Electronics
NEW: E Pluribus Unum: From Many, One, Dammit
NEW: HFGCS Quick Tune SDR List
NEW: The Robert Mueller Iron Triangle Speech
NEW: A Rant About One Party Rule
Captains Authority Versus Autocratic Airline Management
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17: Simply Mass Murder
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 - A Media Circus
High Gain Air Band Antennas
Apollo Unified S Band Communications
Chinese Anti-Stealth VHF Radar
Oceanic Communications - Procedures, Equipment, Voice and HFDL
Boeing 737NG Radio Equipment
Boeing 767 Radio Equipment
NAOC-TACAMO Monitoring
My Flight on 9/11
Joshua Chamberlain's Leadership Tips
Special Operations Forces Truths
TWA 800: Just Give Me Some Truth
Photo Gallery
Aviation Photo Gallery 1: Snapshots From My JourneysAviation Photo Gallery 2: On the Road With ATA Airlines
Aviation Photo Gallery 3: More ATA Airlines
Aviation Photo Gallery 4: Southwest Airlines is the Borg Empire
Aviation Photo Gallery 5: Starting Over, Moving On...
Aviation Photo Gallery 6: More Viva Macau
Aviation Photo Gallery 7: Mainland China Airline Flying
Aviation Photo Gallery 8: Chinese Smog and Fog
NEW: Photo Gallery 9: The New Life Movement in China, 1944
Broadcasting
BBC Radio Blooper - Adolf MerckleTV DXing the World Trade Center
New York TV after 9/11
Live Music Recording
Adjusting Audio Dynamics in VLCBacking Track Prep Guide
Ipod Music Processing Guide
How To Record Record Live Music Performances
Radio Circuit Modifications
ATS-909 ModificationsATS-909 Manuals
ATS-909 Alignment Procedure
ATS-909 Alignment Spectrograms
Skywave Linux just went to version 4.1 two days ago, and it looks pretty solid, with those floating windows in i3wm worked out. There is also upgrade to kernel 5.9.1, and Gqrx, which is up to version 2.13.
With a wry grin and wave to all of the boomers complaining that the distro is not easy and Windows-like, I offer the rest of my update briefing outline:
Objectives of Upgrade 4.1.0:
Fix things that are broken; take upgrades if available.
SLNW: Skywave Linux Is Not Windows:
- I'm not even close to cutting my hair and going mainstream.
- Not pretending to assimilate with slick graphical environments.
- i3 window manager or the terminal, friends...
- Hardware support: recent rt kernel, plus extra drivers and firmware are installed.
If it won't run on your machine, toss your machine into a dumpster and find a Linux friendly machine.
Main Upgrades:
- New realtime linux kernel 5.9.1
- SDR drivers are the latest SoapySDR and Gr-osmoSDR releases.
- i3 tweaks (tabbed arrangement, no auto floats, floats scale to screen resolution)
- Firefox version and bookarks updated; dark reader and container tabs added
- Gqrx updated 2.13
- Both Gqrx and CubicSDR installed as AppImages (Fresher than Ubuntu repos)
- Alacritty set as default terminal (Mate-term, Xterm still available)
Neovim: For Writing Code / Hacking Your SDR Software:
- Neovim plugins changed (Airline -> Lightline, config'ed for more speed)
- Support for Bash, Python, Go, Java / Javascript refined
- Enough plugins to help; not so much to weigh it down
- Start time reduced by about 60 milliseconds
Lesser Updates:
- SDR scripts bash refined slightly (trimming milliseconds off exec times)
- Adjusted volume levels for consistency on different interfaces
- Went from 5 to 3 main audio buses (Built-in Analog, Virtual 1, Virtual 2)
- Added 4 LOOPBACK buses for internal audio routing
- USB reset-helper set up with fzf for "no yank" reset of pluggable devices
- Adjusted apearance and behavior of the bash shell for normal vs root usage
VPN / Proxy Upgrades:
- System proxy prerun / postrun configs more robust
- Psiphon-tunnel-core: binary updated and more egress points
- Lantern: updated
- Wireguard management easy with bash aliases
Searching Finding Files (and things in files)
- fzf, fd, ripgrep all set up
Internet Search: Surfraw
- Fuzzy find your search engine from over 120
- Auto opens Firefox
- Also available in the terminal
- "sr" to search in w3m
- "surfraw" to search in Firefox
Backups and Installation
- We run Skywave as a live environment
- TimeShift is installed for backups or manual installations
- You can also use rsync to install the filesystem
- Did I mention... Skywave is a live environment system?
- Save your files on a separate drive or they vanish on shutdown
- Persistence with casper-rw partition works
- For persistentt multi-iso devices see the Chris Titus "Multiboot USB" video on YT
- Consider "YUMI" or "Ventoy" for making UEFI and legacy bootable devices
Conclusion
- It is updated and verified to run well on modest AMD / Intel 64 bit machines.
- Enjoy the raw, bare metal and [beware of the] sharp corners.
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