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Welcome to Skysoft!
Welcome to Skysoft, the user-supported astronomical software database.
Skysoft is a YAASD (Yet Another Astronomical Software Directory), but with a
different overall approach. Our choice is to design this site as a community supported directory. The idea is that content remains timely because of frequent user interaction. Users and developers are invited to contribute with software news, user's views, comments and bugs notifications, and general astronomical news. This site is designed so that software developers acquire more visibility because of astronomical context. Developers can post a brief description of their product, with the classification which can ease the search and retrieval of software projects.
Our goal is to be useful to both end-users and developers. We host all software
kinds, from general data reduction packages, to specialized libraries, to small
specific tools.
Help us to help you: register your software, share your experiences and views!
The EWASS 2012, the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, will take place in Rome, Italy, at the Pontificia Università Lateranense, during the week of July 1-6, 2012.
Linux 3.2 has been released. New features include support for Ext4 block size bigger than 4KB and up to 1MB, btrfs with faster scrubbing, automatic backup of critical metadata and toolsfor manual inspection; the process scheduler with setting upper limits of CPU time. The desktop responsiveness in presence of heavy writes has been improved, TCP has been updated to include an algorithm which speeds up the recovery of connection after lost packets.
The ADA VII – Astronomical Data Analysis Conference will be held at the Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargèse, Corsica, France on May 14-18, 2012.
The debian derivative Linux Mint reached release 12. It includes the new 'MGSE' (Mint Gnome Shell Extensions), a desktop layer on top of Gnome 3 that makes it possible for you to use the desktop in Gnome2 way.
The OpenBSD team has released the version 5.0 of their OS. As scheduled, the new release brings support for more hardware, network improvements, and OpenSSH 5.9.
Linux 3.1 has been released. The changes include support for the OpenRISC open source CPU; performance improvements to the writeback throttling, some speedups in the slab allocator, a new
iSCSI implementation, bad block management in the generic software RAID layer, a new 'cpupowerutils' utility for power management.
The ADA VII – Astronomical Data Analysis Conference will be held at the Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargèse, Corsica, France on May 14-18, 2012.
The 12th International Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference Quality, Honesty and Beauty in Science Communication, will be held in Florence, Italy, 18-20 April 2012.
An Italian experiment has unveiled evidence that neutrinos can travel faster than light. Other researchers are cautious about the result, but if confirmed, this results spells trouble for the modern physics