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Stellarium 0.8.0 released (SourceForge)

[Posted May 3, 2006 by cook]

Version 0.8.0 of Stellarium, a desktop planetarium, is available with many new capabilities. "Stellarium, a desktop planetarium for your computer, reaches version 0.8.0. It is the result of 7 months of active development of the developers team."

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Posted May 4, 2006 6:48 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

When last I tried it on my laptop, it failed. Apparently that happened
because Stellarium was trying to do real-time updates and my CPU just
isn't fast enough to do all the updates it wants to do before it's time
for the next round.

I wonder if 0.8.0 has (or if any of its immediate successors will have)
an option to attempt less frequent updates.

Stellarium 0.8.0 released (SourceForge)

Posted May 4, 2006 19:37 UTC (Thu) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link]

Give it a try. It's free.

Build or buy

Posted May 5, 2006 18:27 UTC (Fri) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

Debian-unstable still has version 0.7, so I would have to build it. So the question really is, is there any point in building 0.8 myself, or would it fail just like 0.7 did?

Maybe the real answer is that I should build it myself, and then add a feature to change the update rate so it works, and send a patch.