Ultix - Software Documentation

reachableceo · July 18, 2025, 5:39pm

Ultix Software

Introduction

This document covers the software installed on the founder/CTO of Turnkey Network Systems workstation (ultix)..

The software setup on Ultix is quite extensive. It needs to support me across all work I do for TSYS in my

Chief Technology ANd Product Officer (primary) role
VpTechOps (reporting to our Chief Operations Officer/Board)
(interim) Chief Commons Officer

functions day to day, as well as my work reviewing/collaborating with our :

sales
engineering
marketing
biz/tech operations

teams.

The below list reflects that breadth of that scope of work.

Some housekeeping notes:

If the software is noted as being deployed via Docker, it’s running on CharlesDevServer. Otherwise it runs on Ultix.

In fact, we make a best effort to run all software both places to ensure full support for Linux/Windows using developers. However, we don’t test in Docker on Windows, just native.

For the formal CI/CD/SDLC process, LInux is the only supported platform. So, local dev/test can be done on Windows, but any code that lands in git will run through our Linux farm.

We make zero efforts to automate Windows environment setup, to standardize versions etc. It’s very much a sandbox/“rolling release” model. Once we find a stack that works, we freeze it on the Linux side via docker.

We make every effort to automate/source/version control/fully replicate/have reproducible builds etc for our Linux environment setup (via Docker/devcontainer etc).

If that DOcker stack also happens to work in/on WSL/DockerDesktop/WHATEVER, that’s wonderful, but we won’t make any effort to support that. If you are running Windows, spin up a HyperV VM (from our coming Q42025 Packer images), you’ll be much happier

Software List

General Utility Software

Bitwarden
Claude
Edge
Windows Terminal
Powershell: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/install/installing-powershell-on-windows?view=powershell-7.5#winget
MSYS2
Chocolatey:
Scoop: https://scoop.sh/
WInDirStat : winget install -e --id WinDirStat.WinDirStat
vlc media player
MicroSIP
LinPhone
winscp
wireshark
putty
SumatraPDF
Espanso
Basecamp (Garmin)
Garmin Express
qBittorrent
Mozilla Thunderbird
FileZilla
PDFTK
Rapid Environment Editor
Chezmoi
nmap
GPL GhostScript
MQTT Explorer
LockHunter
Camstudio
ShareX
Flameshot
LibreOffice
StreamDeck
Canon MF drivers/utilities for print/scan/fax
GNU Privacy Guard
Gpg4Win (4.3.1)
recoll
ScanSnap Home
CPU-z

Multimedia

MeshLab
Audacity
Inkscape
Scribus
Jahshaka
Gimp
Blender
LMMS
Kdenlive
Natron
Darktable
Krita
OpenShot Video Editor
Drawpile
mtPaint
Draw.io
meshroom
OBS Studio
sweethome3d
Pencil2d
Dust3d
MagicaVoxel
Digikam
ImageMagick
Gephi

PKM

VYM
Zettlr
Docear
Freeplane
Zotero

LLM

GPT4All
ollama

Entertainment/relaxation

flightgear

COO Stack (fin eng) Finance Tools

Jstock
StockSharp

CTO Stack (data eng) Data IDEs/engines

Data Engines

MySQL Installer - Community
MySQL Shell
MySQL Workbench
postgresql
postgis

Data IDEs

sqlite studio
Dbeaver
Dbgate
Apache Directory Studio
JXplorer

Statistics

Jasp
GNU PSPP

CTO Stack (sw/electronics hw eng) Code IDEs / language runtimes

Suborbital Systems Related

XyGrib
openvsp

RackRental Related

GNS3

Software Development Support tutilities

Redmine CLI: https://github.com/MrJeffLarry/redmine-cli
Devpod
WinMerge
Git
Dr. Memory
Composer - PHP Dependency Manager
Packer.io
Bruno
ghidra
radare2
Conda(forge) (https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge?tab=readme-ov-file)

Software / Process Design

Mozilla Pencil
Storyboarder
AggoUML
Modelio open source
Bonita Studio Community

IDEs

CodeBlocks
WXFormBuilder
CodeLite
Microchip Studio
CCS (Code Composer Studio)
Apache Netbeans
Octave
Lazarus
Visual studio Community 2022
Visual studio code
EBlink
Eclipse IDE
EMbitz
RKward
RStudio
xilinx Vivado

Language runtimes

These exist in two places:

Ultix (for testing of Windows dev environment /light use / supporting other packages)

CharlesDevServer Managed via mise and used for anything “real” that goes through the SDLC.

Rust
Ruby
Python 3.12.x for Windows
MikTeX
strawberry perl
R For Windows 4.3.1
Magicsplat TCL/Tk
Go Programming Language
Pandoc
Node.js
devilbox (LAMP dev stack)
wxcrafter (plugin to codelite)

CTO Stack (EDA) Electronic Design Automation pipeline/stack

EDA itself

Kicad
eSim
LibrePCB
Horizon EDA
Bitscope (client/server setup)

Circuit simulation

spice2x
LTspice

Design Validation

QucsStudio
Qucs

CTO STack (RFENg) RF Engineering

This consists of 4 major sub categories:

GIS to prepare data files to run the simulation over
The actual RF modeling/simulation
SDR to capture/generate signals
RF test chamber generation/instrumentation/data management

RF Modeling/simulation

Gis /ETL

GIS and ETL software is critical, to prepare LIDAR/terrain data for the RF signal propagation software to consume.

wingrass
geoserver
grass gis
QGIS,OSGeo4W,PostGISBundle https://postgis.net/documentation/getting_started/install_windows/released_versions/

Lora/Wifi

Flora
RF-signals (https://git.knownelement.com/ExternalVendorCode/rf-signals)
SignalServer-GUI (https://git.knownelement.com/ExternalVendorCode/signalserver_gui)
SignalServer (https://git.knownelement.com/ExternalVendorCode/Signal-Server)
Rp-Sim (https://git.knownelement.com/ExternalVendorCode/RP-Sim)

RF modeling Supporting software/libraries/documentation

Software Defined Radio

(client/server) sdr:

- Windows 10 workstation hosting the SDR USB devices
- Hyper-V Guest Linux <https://github.com/ainfosec/FISSURE> (capture system) via soapy remote/rtl_tcp/other methods to ingest/process data stream.