Removed rtl_mus in favor of ncat.

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**News (2015-09-01)**
- The DDC in *csdr* has been hand-optimized for ARM NEON, so it runs 3× faster on the Raspberry Pi than before.
- Also we use *ncat* instead of *rtl_mus*, and it is also 3× faster.
- Also we use *ncat* instead of *rtl_mus*, and it is 3× faster.
- OpenWebRX now supports URLs like: http://localhost:8073/#freq=145555000,mod=usb
- When upgrading OpenWebRX, please make sure that you upgrade *csdr*, and install the new (optional) dependency *ncat*!
**News (2016-01-23)**
- *ncat* is now a requirement for OpenWebRX.
When upgrading OpenWebRX, please make sure that you upgrade *csdr*, and install the new (optional) dependency *ncat*!
## Setup
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- <a href="https://github.com/simonyiszk/csdr">libcsdr</a>
- <a href="http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr">rtl-sdr</a>
- ncat (on Debian/Ubuntu, it is in the *nmap* package). *(It is optional, but highly advised.)*
- ncat (On Debian/Ubuntu, it is in the *nmap* package).
> By the way, *nmap* is tool commonly used for auditing network security, and it is not used by OpenWebRX in any way. We need it because the *ncat* command is packaged with it.
>
> *ncat* is a better *netcat* alternative, which is used by OpenWebRX for internally distributing the I/Q data stream. It also solves the problem of having different versions of *netcat* on different Linux distributions, which are not compatible by their command-line arguments.
After cloning this repository and connecting an RTL-SDR dongle to your computer, you can run the server: