xearth (was: Re: Linux OS)

[Jules Richardson]

On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 13:12 +1000, Huw Davies wrote:

> Have a look at OSXplanet (http://otte.ucsc.edu/~gabriel/osxplanet.html) 
> for a more modern version (that knows about the poles and lots of other 
> things).

Fantastic - thanks! That led me to xplanet and celestia:

http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/
http://celestia.sourceforge.net/

both of which look rather awesome. Now to work out if the museum has any
classic hardware with enough CPU power and framebuffer ability to run
them... 

I think the SGI Indy's the only machine we've got with anything better
than an 8 bit colour display, but I'd probably have to use it as a
remote display to something with a little more horsepower. Hmmm...

cheers

Jules