[Xastir] Do I need Gnome or KDE?

[Reuven Z Gevaryahu]

Jacob Tennant wrote:

>Since we are all running linux here, has anyone heard of a linux-based
>version of WSJT? for weak-signal meteor scatter?
>  
>
See http://www.qsl.net/g4klx/software.htm , and the source code is 
available from the wsjt homepage, http://pulsar.princeton.edu/~joe/K1JT/ .

I actually contacted the author about this (Jul 02, before he released 
the source code), and this was his reply:

> I have had probably half a dozen inquiries about a possible Linux
> port of WSJT.  I would have much preferred to write the program
> for Linux in the first place -- I am not a professional
> programmer, and I've never written anything for Windows before
> -- but I wanted the finished product to be usable by the largest
> possible number of hams.  So that meant Windoze.
>
> A port of the portion of code that does nearly all of the heavy
> computing in WSJT would be very easy.  It's written in ANSI
> standard Fortran, and would work under Linux with a simple
> recompile.
>
> The user interface is another story.  It's written in Visual
> Basic, and one would have to start over to make an equivalent
> Linux version.  I have no interest in trying to maintain two
> distinct versions of code, hi.

If I had massive experience with UI code under linux, I would have 
offered to help... but there are people many times more qualified than 
me, and with the source now available, there is bound to be a definitive 
linux version some day.

--Reuven (KB3EHW)