:Watch and Explore Outer Space with Stellarium, Celestia, and Xplanet
Watch and Explore Outer Space with Stellarium, Celestia, and Xplanet Mar 19, 2008, 09 :00 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (3248 reads) (Other stories by David A. Harding)
"Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth spent about $20 million to go into space, and he never got farther away from Earth than a few hundred miles. Using three free software programs, you can look at and virtually travel to places millions of miles away without leaving your GNU/Linux desktop or paying a dime.
"The GNU GPL covers all three programs, and most major distributions include all of them as packages..."