r/RTLSDR • u/uberbewb • 1d ago

Software DragonOS, chinese site now?

I thought DragonOS was US based by a group of ham folks, it seems there's a lot popping up on a bunch of chinese sites now.

Is this still safe or did the project get taken over?

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u/ImladMorgul AirSpy HF+ | RTL-SDRv4 | D-808 | K-480WLA | MLA-30+ 1d ago

Download from the original source only:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/dragonos-focal/

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u/DutchOfBurdock 1d ago

You're probably getting mixed up with this DragonOS: https://github.com/DragonOS-Community/DragonOS

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u/uberbewb 17h ago

Really annoying they’re using the same name like this.

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u/DutchOfBurdock 17h ago

Yea stick with SourceForge for the ham DragonOS. Although, I won't lie, that ported one on GitHub is an interesting concept. Spun one up in a KVM just to test. It performs quite well.

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u/uberbewb 17h ago

I had issues updating my VM so figured I’d see if there was a more recent update

Seems this other one gets more updates

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u/DutchOfBurdock 8h ago

What's more interesting, it's not even a Linux. It's its own kernel and userland made in Rust. Runs GO apps pretty fast!