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Without flames, which OS are you using?
If Linux, which one and have you had any problems getting Celestia built and running.
Had a really frustrating Windoze episode today and am thinking about finally switching over to Linux. I have run Linux in the past under a dual boot setup, but when I installed XP, it was on a new computer and do not have Linux on this box.
All input appreciated.

Windows XP and 98 SE on dual boot...

Celestia works fine in both platforms...

rickindy wrote:Without flames, which OS are you using?
All input appreciated.

I've just changed WIN98 with WIN XP and, believe me, I've found a big improvement. While with WIN98 I had many times crashes problems using Celestia 1.3, now it's p?ossible to open with Celestia 1.3 four windows with the 16k Earth (ALL textures and clouds), 8k Moon, 8k Mars, 2k Jupiter with clouds, and still have a decent frame rate.
With WIN98 this was impossible, though I have changed nothing else than the OS.
Just for your knowledge, because you could think I'm mad, I have a Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4600- 128 Mb video card, and it's worth its price, waiting for the next, wonderful Nvidia GeForce FX.
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Andrea

Rick,

Unless you enjoy building things from scratch, including tracking down all the libraries that happen not to be on your system, I'd suggest going with one of the Linux distributions supported by Celestia's prebuilt rpms: either Mandrake or SuSE with KDE3.

Personally, I'm using XP Pro.

It probably would have been more appropriate to post your query as a poll. That way it'd be easier to see the statistics. So I'll do that.

Mandrake 9.0. No problems compiling celestia or installing it from rpm.

I'm personally using Red Hat 8, got Celestia at freshRPMs.net, installs and runs awsome, especially using apt-get, it finds and installs all the dependencies, soon I'll be changing to Gentoo Linux, but for ease of use I suggest Red Hat with the apt-get installer

Windows XP, Pro, Service Pack 1
and works very well

I'm mainly using Linux (Mandrake 9.1) but also have Windows XP installed on one machine just for a few apps that don't work in Linux or that there is no Linux version. Compiling and installing RPMs works just fine.

Gentoo Linux - celestia runs like a dream