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Subsurface 4.3 Released
jones_supa writes "The Subsurface development team proudly announces release 4.3 of the open source divelog and dive planning program, available for all major desktop operating systems. This is the software originally founded by Linus Torvalds, and the development seems to be continuing in great pace. Subsurface now supports flexible filtering of the dive list based on criteria like tags, people or gear. Dive characteristics can now also be copied and pasted to other dives. The dive profile now offers an easy to understand tissue saturation graph that shows tissue saturation at any point during the dive. As another new feature in the dive profile, one can turn on an improved visualization of the gas combinations used during a dive. The dive computer and file format support have also gotten large improvements."
Sounds like a nifty piece of software, but with a very limited user base. Not sure why it made it to the front page of /.
Low cost tablet from Microsoft?
Just what I need, as I sit at home eating mac and cheese by the light of my laptop screen.
Though I prefer Diving Log, which has a client for phone and desktop. I use the phone in surface intervals to chuck in notes about the dive, and put heavier typing and such in on the desktop, when I synchronise the phone across.. Works nicely for me.
foo version X was just released. is that news too?
IPads and Kindles make good fill ins when you need a sub for your surface.
..Is it because Linus is an author? Maybe we should see his weekly grocery lists too.
So some program with a limited audience has a new release, and not only does this make the front page, TFS doesn't even link to the software itself, but to some lame blog talking about the software.
FWIW Subsurface
I am Slashdot. Are you Slashdot as well?
How about, "Dick Smegma Venter"? See what I did there with the internal rhyme? If I ever do a rap record, it'll be under the name "MC Smegma Venter" - "Smegma Venter by name, leaves his fly open by nature" - first track "Muff Dive" - exclusive "scratch 'n sniff" vinyls y'all.
Yes. Perhaps it would be more useful to you if it logged time spent below the surface in your Mum's basement.
My initial thoughts when I read the headline as well, haha.
One interesting piece of history about this project is that they switched from using C/GTK to using C++/QT recently and apparently with very good results. Especially interesting given the way Linus' past comments on C++ have been so widely replayed.
here's a link to the talk: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...
Or people just ripping a hole in their wall, dumping the Surface into it, then plastering over the hole...
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
We're putting obscure software onto the front page now? Does that mean I can get my private-pilot duty flight times management software on the front page? Oh wait, practically no-one cares!
... there is a fancy new project planning paradigm that the suits want to flog. "Move over Agile, just Dive right in!" But no! These are people who are really diving into the sea. They mean scuba gear and skin suits and the like. And they are doing it so often apparently that they need a software to keep track of it all. Wow!
I thought Microsoft held the copyright on any substandard products named "surface".
*crashdive*
i would like to log the air temperature, humidity and air pressure that went into the tank, ...
also if it rained the night before (wet sand near compressor) and stuff would be cool.
also what flowers and trees where in bloom during tank filling
does the dive pro shop owner have a dog that likes to pee and pooh near the compressor housing shead?
So this is Linus' replacement for Subversion?