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KDE Conquers Astrophysics With Kst

Telex4 writes "The Free Software community is constantly inundated with interesting new projects, but occasionally something crops up which is really special. Kst is just such a project. Started by Barth Netterfield, an astrophysicist, as a personal project to plot data from his experiments, it has now taken on a life of its own, being used in numerous academic projects, and finding funding from several government agencies. Intrigued by this project's success, and with a little prod from co-developer George Staikos, I interviewed Barth and George about kst, Free Software and physics."

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  1. KDE Naming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I suppose its slightly better than KastroPhysics.

    1. Re:KDE Naming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Shouldn't the headline read "KDE Konquers Kastrophysicists kith Kst"?

    2. Re:KDE Naming by name773 · · Score: 3, Funny
      communism = beards * cigars^2
      you forgot vodka. the following equation will compensate:

      communism = (beards * (cigars + vodka)^(1 + 1/e))

  2. "kst"? by kst · · Score: 4, Funny

    For the record, I had nothing to do with this.

  3. Shouldn't that be "Konquered"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    As in "konquered astrophysiks"? How else can I tell that it was written for KDE?

  4. Re:I'm sure many will ask this... by ErichTheWebGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why is this necessary?

    It's gnecessary kuz it's kool.

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  5. Another one? by drsmack1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    We need to stop creating all of these astrophysics programs for Linux and develop the ones we have now!

  6. He'll need it... by Chemical+Serenity · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... to plot how quickly his site gets slashdotted. ;)

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  7. I would have thought Gnome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought they were looking to find the Grand Gnunified Theory.

  8. Instructions by jsweval · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone else not able to read the instructions because its MIME type is text/html?

  9. Python Announces Fork... by Eberlin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pst (pronounced pissed...or post, depending on who you ask) is a Python fork of the now-popular kst program. Instead of astrophysics, it endeavors to plot a graph of aggression among IT employees.

    Finding absolutely no funding from anyone, including government agencies, the project has taken a life of its own among overworked volunteer developers. These Pst programmers work dilligently on the code while concurrently providing enough test data to plot.

    Due to its popularity, a port using Microsoft Foundation Classes is in the works. Rumor has it that it will be called MFT (pronounced miffed). A C port is also being made -- and their sourceforge project is located at ifuckinhateusers.sourceforge.net

  10. Re:kst by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thanks. Trolling is hard work and we rarely get recognition. Now I can finally brag on trolltalk and not be mocked. I finally have the STUPIDEST TROLL EVER SEEN. Yay!

  11. OK, fine... by Spoing · · Score: 1, Funny
    Now KDE has an astophysics program. Can it do colour-magnitude diagrams? Can it give real-time feedback from particle accelerators?

    You open source people have to cover this or Microsoft will walk all over you.

    (Satire, probably bad, noted here to CMA.)

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  12. Re:I'm sure many will ask this... by IdleTime · · Score: 1, Funny

    That is just to funny!
    You try to deflate the argument about every gnome package starts a G and your sig says:
    "gnaughty [sourceforge.net] - easy free porn"
    Maybe not every program, but at least the one you promote! LOLOLOL

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