[Tfug] Favorite Linux app?

Tony tfug@tfug.org
Wed Sep 18 02:22:01 2002


I get the same rush working within rxvt.


Bowie J. Poag wrote:
>  
> My favorite:
>  
> Celestia - Full blown OpenGL astronomy package & space simulator. You 
> havent even _begun_ to feel like a God until you've destroyed the moon, 
> created a giant fiery helll-planet in its place, named it after 
> yourself, built the terrain yourself, added a cloud layer, and put it in 
> orbit where the moon used to be. Watch the Martian sunrise, or hang out 
> in orbit around Saturn looking back to earth. Travel at the speed of 
> light, in realtime...Tons of fun stuff. Go from focusing in on a single 
> garbage-can sized rock orbiting earth to zooming out half a billion 
> lightyears away, in about 10 seconds.
>  
> Runs in a window in X, or full screen. Also has a Windows port. :)
>  
> http://www.shatters.net/celestia/