Re: Celestia, Kstars, Etc.

2009-01-13 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 02:09:09 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Just bought my daughter a telescope. It came a cybersky program which would not install using wine. Of course, there are native Linux programs around, Celestia and Kstars. Kstars is simple s

Celestia, Kstars, Etc.

2009-01-12 Thread David Baron
Just bought my daughter a telescope. It came a cybersky program which would not install using wine. Of course, there are native Linux programs around, Celestia and Kstars. Kstars is simple s slow as to be unusable. Celestia, on the other hand, performs quite well, even with my legacy

Re: Celestia, Kstars, Etc.

2009-01-12 Thread Daryl Styrk
David Baron wrote: Just bought my daughter a telescope. It came a cybersky program which would not install using wine. Of course, there are native Linux programs around, Celestia and Kstars. Kstars is simple s slow as to be unusable. Celestia, on the other hand, performs quite

Re: Celestia, Kstars, Etc.

2009-01-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/12/09 13:34, Daryl Styrk wrote: David Baron wrote: Just bought my daughter a telescope. It came a cybersky program which would not install using wine. Of course, there are native Linux programs around, Celestia and Kstars. Kstars is simple s slow as to be unusable. Celestia, on

Re: Celestia, Kstars, Etc.

2009-01-12 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:47:22 +0200 David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: Just bought my daughter a telescope. It came a cybersky program which would not install using wine. Of course, there are native Linux programs around, Celestia and Kstars. Kstars is simple s slow as to be

Re: Celestia, Kstars, Etc.

2009-01-12 Thread Daryl Styrk
Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/12/09 13:34, Daryl Styrk wrote: David Baron wrote: Just bought my daughter a telescope. It came a cybersky program which would not install using wine. Of course, there are native Linux programs around, Celestia and Kstars. Kstars is simple s slow as to be

Re: Celestia, Kstars, Etc.

2009-01-12 Thread thveillon.debian
Nyizsnyik Ferenc a écrit : On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:47:22 +0200 David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: Just bought my daughter a telescope. It came a cybersky program which would not install using wine. Of course, there are native Linux programs around, Celestia and Kstars. Kstars is simple

Re: Celestia, Kstars, Etc.

2009-01-12 Thread Graham
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:47:22 +0200 David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: Just bought my daughter a telescope. It came a cybersky program which would not install using wine. Of course, there are native Linux programs around, Celestia and Kstars. Kstars is simple s slow as to be

Re: Celestia, Kstars, Etc.

2009-01-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/12/09 18:52, Graham wrote: [snip] Ever tried Stellarium (http://www.stellarium.org/)? You can find it in the repositories. Well worth downloading if you're into astronomy. My son loves to play with Stellarium. (Achingly slow on a 128MB machine, though...) -- Ron Johnson, Jr.