I’ve been hearing about XGL for a while now, and with the new release of Windows Vista imminent, I was wondering how it compares. Well, there appears to be no comparison, XGL really rocks! Take a look at the following demo from YouTube, and if you want to give it a spin, try and get hold of a copy of Kororaa (I got mine as a bittorrent). Interestingly, you might assume you need a serious set of graphics cards to run this (I was at a conference this week where someone had 4 graphics cards in his pc!), but apparently not.

Use this application to convert movies from your camcorder into flipbooks. Pretty cool I reckon, just need a linux version; GIMP plugin anyone?

This is just what I want - I could do with a ‘build your own’ instruction manual.

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After spending an evening upgrading my SUSE linux distro from 8.2 to 9.0 (actually it was real easy), I started having a look at what else was on the DVD and discovered Celestia. It is an amazing open source 3d space simulation and has planet images created from the Voyager photos. You can fly around space looking stars, planets, moons and just about anything. Billy spent about an hour zooming in and out of Jupiter (his current favourite planet - knocking previous favourite Mars off top spot). The speed (on Linux anyway) is breathtaking, oh and there is a Windows version.

Here’s a taster - a view of the Earth:


and Jupiter: