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

[Daniel Carter <danultra@softhome.net>]

 > 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 :-)

On my 700MHz Duron with 128MB ram and a 32MB board, 1.2.5 is so 
slow it's unuseable.  1.2.4 was much faster, so people with older 
machines might want to use it, but I had problems compiling it 
with gcc3 (and as yet haven't bothered to download the the old 
gcc2).  Maybe I should just upgrade my machine...

Hmm, the pre 1.0 version I first tried was even faster... funny that.

Dan