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Paolo Amoroso

When I bought the XEphem ephemeris and planetarium program in the 1990s it was the first astronomy software I used on Linux.

Now available as open source, it is still as advanced as back in the day with features few similar programs have. With its Motif user interface frozen in time and now turned retro, here is XEphem on my Linux Mint box where it still builds and runs fine. Almost permacomputing.

xephem.github.io/XEphem/Site/x

Screenshot of the desktop of a Linux Mint Cinnamon PC. Aside from a horizontal taskbar at the bottom, most of the desktop is taken by 8 windows of an astronomy program. The program's user interface is based on the Motif toolkit and the windows show ephemeris, star charts, planetary globes, and other visualizations of astronomical data.
#astronomy#planetarium#linux
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JamesTDG

@amoroso and the funny part is, if a modern tool tried to provide those features, they'd often try to figure out a way to paywall like half the features under different premium tiers. FOSS is the only way to go with how bad normal software has become now

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