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bitwize on Feb 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: NASA and Open-Source Software

I think "NASA and open source" and I keep flashing back to the guy from JPL who used (unregistered!) xv to look at images from the Mars Pathfinder mission, live on television.

For those too young to remember, before ImageMagick came along, xv was pretty much the image viewer to have under Linux. It's still around, $35 and shareware: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv_(software)

badsectoracula on Feb 17, 2023 [–]

Fun fact: xv is still part of Slackware (though it has been moved to /extra since version 15 instead of being part of the installation sets)

okoslaatoo on Feb 17, 2023 | [–]

{Free,Net,Open}BSD still have them as well.

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