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[[File:Crystal Clear info.png|40px]] The text on this page was written when Cumulus MX offered a subset of the functionality that was available with the original Cumulus 1. | [[File:Crystal Clear info.png|40px]] The text on this page was written when Cumulus MX 3.0.0 beta offered a subset of the functionality that was available with the original Cumulus 1. | ||
Since then MX has developed very quickly and its functionality is now vastly different. | Since then MX has developed very quickly and its functionality is now vastly different. An attempt has been made to remove (apart from the Steve Loft section) MX information that no longer applies, and there is some attempt to document when the missing legacy functionality was added (but some, e.g select-a-chart, has not yet been documented). | ||
If any contributor is willing to update content, | If any contributor is willing to update content, then (as well as filling in gaps like select-a-graph) they should focus on documenting what MX does that the legacy software did not, in such a way it helps people wondering about the difference between MX releases and the legacy Cumulus software. | ||
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=Introduction= | =Introduction= | ||
At the time of writing this | At the time of writing this comparison, two flavours of software developed by Steve Loft were available for people to choose between. | ||
The newcomer to the story is Cumulus 3, also known as MX. When this comparison was originally written, MX had very little functionality, the only real advantage was that MX could run on other devices, such as a [[Raspberry Pi computer page|Raspberry Pi computer]], that (unlike Microsoft Windows PCs) run reliably without rebooting themselves for mandatory updating. | |||
The original Cumulus software (now called Legacy Cumulus 1) is no longer capable of being developed any further, as neither its development environment, nor its source, are available now. | The original Cumulus software (now called Legacy Cumulus 1) is no longer capable of being developed any further, as neither its development environment, nor its source, are available now. However, most people are still using it. | ||
There was a Cumulus 2, but it is no longer available, some of its functionality was subsequently added to Cumulus 1, and some of its concepts formed the basis for Cumulus 3 (now generally known as Cumulus MX). | There was a Cumulus 2, but it is no longer available, some of its functionality was subsequently added to Cumulus 1, and some of its concepts formed the basis for Cumulus 3 (now generally known as Cumulus MX). | ||
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Thus this | Thus this comparison is neither authoritative nor definitive. | ||
== Cumulus 1 == | == Cumulus 1 == | ||