Is Linux a desktop operating system?

[John Levin]

On 28 May 2005, at 10:59, Norman Silverstone wrote:

>
> One bright spot is that a piece of Astronomy software called SkyMap  
> Lite
> runs with the help of Wine but, however, the display and the way  
> data is
> presented, is not as readable as when run in Windows for which it was
> developed.
>


I thought that linux had abundant astronomy software. Celestia,  
Stellarium etc. (Disclaimer: I've only very rarely used astronomy apps)

The lack of educational software is noted: hopefully edubuntu will go  
some way to sorting that out.

John