Lot of scientific work with Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora...). I think it would be a great idea that Starry Night support Linux. Futhermore, MacOS is a same family of Linux.
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Desmond Martynick I for one would love to see this become a reality as well. However since Starry Night uses Quick Time 7 I do not think it will happen. I tried to get SN7 up and running via WINE but with QT 7.* it would fail. the result is a black viewer screen mean while the rest of SN7 works but no images. Weird I know.
But why? Since SN7 at least for me, peaks at about 300MB or ram at idel and in usage about 960MB to 1.2GB and less than 10% of CPU utilization. This is really good. I know these values will be different between users because of their PC setups(Different Hardware Configurations).
As far as Mac OS goes I believe labeling it more in tune and in line with the BSD family as Linux is just the Kernel powering the distribution of choice(IE: Ubuntu/Debian) as Darwin is to OS X..
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Scott Wood I need a Linux version as well.
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Ellen Baker I've just recently made the move to Linux Mint Cinnamon (and I love it) but dang! My tower's hard disk fried - won't get into details of the outage that caused it - but I'm now nearly fully-recovered, though I lost my StarryNight and it's a heartbreaker. MILLIONS of (dare I say) very bright people, highly technical people, have taken the same leap and it's tragic that "well equipped" systems (plenty of processor muscle, plenty of storage) can't make use of this fabulous software. I had (and frequently used) SN since its early days. Developers: Gotta stay on the bleeding edge!
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