I'm a bit late to this but I have a 1014D I don't mind breaking - am looking into getting a new 'scope anyway.
It looks like a few weeks since any updates posted to this this thread but if you're still working on it, I'm prepared to have a go, I'm a long time user of Linux - Fedora, since FC3.
Can't help thinking this amount of effort might be better spent on something like the Hantek 2000 series. Apparently better hardware, apparently very buggy software.