Re: [school-discuss] evaluation of astronomy apps at opensource schools ...

[mike eschman <meschman@etc-edu.com>]

hello,

as you suggested, i went to sourceforge and downloaded celestia's 1.2.5 
.tar.gz file from sourceforge.  install took less than three minutes and went 
without a hitch.  the interface is intuitive so documentation is not an 
issue.  the image catalog - well, i played with it for two hours.

celestia runs a little sluggish on my test box. a 1 gigahertz athalon with 512 
meg of ram and a 64 meg video board.  but i had 5 or 6 other things going :-)

so i'm keeping celestia and will package it with my solor system notes.

and my wife and i are going to play with it tonight.

this made doing the evals worthwhile :-)

it's pretty, useful and installs in a snap.

BTW, my initial difficulties stem from the Selu/Edu Application Index having a 
.tar.gz from Celestia 1.2.0, not 1.2.4, for download, and it was a .gz with 
no gzip in there. 

mike eschman, etc ...
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On Tuesday 21 January 2003 12:11 am, Charlie Cosse wrote:
> mike eschman wrote:
> > celestia - bad tar file. inadequate documentation.(tar.gz but no gzip in
> > there)
>
> i downloaded celestia last night from sourceforge and they have fixed
> that problem -- it's version 1.2.5 now (bad tar file was 1.2.4). They
> have fixed-up the demo, too, if you recall it crashed just as you
> approached Saturn.
> Charlie

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