[time-nuts] Lady Heather coming soon to a Linux box near you...

[Paul Alfille]

This is great news. Will the code be available for inspection /
modification?

Paul Alfille
K1PHA

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 1:13 AM, Mark Sims <holrum at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Well,  Lady Heather finally got off her ample ass and dug into the tao of
> X11 and all things Linuxy.   The program is currently working well enough
> to display log files, etc.  Serial port initialization for non-blocking
> asynchronous I/O needs to be completed.   I have it working on a couple of
> Ubuntu Mate boxes  (X86 and Mac Mini power pc G4) and a Raspberry Pi 3.  I
> need to tweak the Pi color palette initialization code... the bastards
> defaulted it to a 16 bit RGB 565 frame buffer...
> One thing that will probably not be supported is sound file support...
> playing .WAV files asynchronously does not seem to come naturally to
> Linux.  Does anybody know of a simple / lazy bastard way to play a sound
> file in the background from a C/C++ program...  I'd really like my GPS
> disciplined singing clock to work.
>
>
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