> Huh? You don't keep you older machines after you upgrade?
Nope. I've had one older machine with a P3 which I passed on to my
cousin's daughter. They are not as well off as I am and it's normal
here to help out poorer relatives.
> And yet you pay for commercial amateur astronomy software, and a
> motorized telescope (or at least the extra eyepieces and filters) to use
> with it?
Yes. I save my money to buy these things. As I said, we need to
prioritize if we really want something. I can't always buy both the
scope accessories and computer accessories all at once. But I did save
up for the laptop because I needed it when I observe out of town. And
I do plan to upgrade my aging P4 desktop to a Core Duo in a few
months.
> You're trolling, dude. Why else would you come in here complaining to
> us, instead of your telescope manufacturers, about the lack of Linux
> support?
I was just voicing out my frustration. I was at the ASCOM group a
month ago asking for Linux support and they all ganged up on me. A
troll would complain and do nothing. I have done a lot, including
contacting the developers and publishers of astronomy software. I
> If you mentioned it in an aside, that would be one thing. But you come
> in here with a long post about the topic, shortly after posts about
> Microsoft's astronomic site. Tattoo Vampire recognized it, too, but he
> has less patience that I do.
I haven't posted anything about Microsoft's site.
> It's just another variation on the "Linux lacks multimedia" troll, but
> with less justification, since your favoritie apps are much more of a
> niche.
Nah. It was Amarok that converted me to Linux. Its music sounds much
better than anything Windows could offer and I love the Wikipedia
support.
> If all you're doing is throwing out a complaint, hoping to inspire some
> random dude to write better "astronomy" software, then I .... nah, it
> makes no sense except as a troll.
>From my previous post, I mentioned that I am currently the super-
maintainer of SkyMap Pro for the Wine project and I have filed a few
bugs on it:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=1520
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13039
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13040
Keeping a watch on how SkyMap Pro works in Wine, testing on each new
version of Wine and keeping old versions of SkyMap Pro for has worked
for my advantage: SkyMap is now Silver, and I can use it for
everything except telescope control.
I am doing my part. I do not know how to program in C++ but I'm doing
everything else I can.
So a person who has done most of what he can do to improve the state
of astronomy software in Linux deserves a few moments of frustration.
I'm not like a lot of people who complain first before doing anything
to help.
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