[OT] Astro Program

[Jim Smith]

das wrote:
> Can any friend here suggest me a good program that will run on Ubuntu
> Feisty 7.04 and help children (meant for my nephew aged 8) in getting
> perception about the solar system, universe and these things? And
> something that is not vulgarly resource hungry (I have only 512 MB RAM
> with Athlon 1800+ XP). 
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> das
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I have had , good luck with Kstars and Xephem. Kstars depite the name
runs well in Gnome. Xephem will run under any WM you can install.

Jim

YMMV