I have been running Heather on Ubuntu MATE 16-04 since Mark released it. Wonderful.
Currently running or a R Pi 3B with lots of machine to spare! Cheers! Dave Mallery On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Mark Sims <hol...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I am the creator author of Lady Heather. The code in Lady Heather > started out from a program that I wrote to control Magellan GPS receivers > (like the OEM-5000) back in days of the first Gulf War... it ran under DOS > as a text mode only program. > > When TAPR did their group buy for Trimble Thunderbolts I bought one and > modified the code to work with it. Again, basically a DOS program that > could run under Windows and do some plotting. The idea was to keep it > simple and had a lot of kludges to minimize memory usages so it could run > on low-end discarded machines. > > John Miles added support for running properly under Windows using his > WIN_VFX library. Then the fun began and things began to get out of > control. Lots of new features, silly features, useful features, not so > useful features were added. There is still code/compile options in there > for a DOS compatible compile, but too much has been added for that to ever > work again... > > A few months back, I added support for working under Linux using X11 as > the graphics / keyboard interface. That code is what it in the Rev 4.0 > beta that is on John's web site. > > Lately I have been adding support for working with receivers other than > those in the Trimble Thunderbolt family. It is now working with Trimble, > Motorola, Jupiter, Sirf, Venus, Ublox, NMEA, SCPI (Z38xx), UCCM, and a few > others. It also works with GPSD (a sort of universal GPS receiver > interface for Linux). It can also work as a system clock display without a > GPS receiver connected. > > I hope to have the newest code finalized and released shortly... I'm > waiting on a couple of new receivers to come in. > > Lady Heather is free, open-source software now released under the very > permissive MIT license... > ---------- > > Mark, what's your official link to Lady Heather.... and how do we donate > to the cause? > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (ubuntu linux 16-04) PO Box 15 Ophir, OR 97464 linux counter #64628 (since 1997) _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.