The most helpful site I can find is this one:
http://2h2o.tumblr.com/
Many of my questions were answered with this post:
https://forums.hak5.org/index.php?/topic/31717-got-my-sdr-kit-now-what/page-1
but alas it would appear that the gnuradio script takes care of much of the former:
$ wget http://www.sbrac.org/files/build-gnuradio && chmod a+x ./build-gnuradio && ./build-gnuradio
*I did have to update the build script to include 7.5 for it to run.
