Free animal planet software for linux

RSS-Planet is a custom marker file generator for xplanet which uses RSS feeds from news websites to plot the current headlines on a world map.

By default, Yahoo! News and CNN.com are supported, but other feeds that point to articles with easily-discoverable place names (such as the Washington Post) should work as well.

The purpose of Planets 3D is to show a simulation of our solar system. The focus lies on a nice graphic (3D OpenGL) and the possibility to modify the objects of the solar system to see what happens.
This program is written on Linux using C++. In theory it should be portable to windows, because Ive used only plattform independent libraries. Anyone who tries to port it please contact me even if unsuccessful, perhaps I can help overcome arising errors.
By now there is included a small program which converts different coordinate systems into each other. It is called Astroconvert.
Main features:
- simulate the development of the solar system based on calculations of the gravity power
- take screenshots
- load and save solar systems
- modify solarsystem
- switch between different cameras to view the solar system (e.g. look through a shuttle window)

PlanetGenesis is a Java program designed to produce models of planets and landscapes.

A little like Mojoworld but free (as in beer and speech) and no where near as good.

PlanetGenesis produces:

- 16bit greyscale bitmaps.
- Wavefront format objects.
- POV-RAY 3.5 mesh2 meshs.
- Terragen terrains.

based on pseudo-random noise. Which can be used in 3D rendering sofware.

Global Village project is a gnome application designed to place a front-end, or graphical user interface onto the CLI interface of Xplanet, by Hari Nair.
Originally intended to create and update the desktop wallpaper in a gnome environment, showing a traditional rectangular projection of the planet Earth, the scope of the project has been expanded. Global Village now provides as many of the features of Xplanet as seem reasonable, and with the ability for plugins the scope is nearly limitless. But do take it with a grain of salt...
Current Status
Currently, Global Village is barely functional. It can be considered in the pre-alpha stage of development.
It can currently show a preview of the final image, and then display that image on the desktop at user specified intervals (in seconds), and has an icon in the notification area of the Gnome panel.
Plugins are semi-working, but undergoing a lot of change as I decide what they do adn dont need to be capable of. The idea is that plugins will manage all the extra features users require, like cloudmaps, marker and arc files.
Main features:
- Select a planet.
- Select a projection.
- Bodys North Type.
- Rotate the bodys North Pole
- The Zoom level
- The Suns glare
- Latitude and Longitude, which can be set as:
- North Pole
- South Pole
- Equator
- Random Latitude and Longitude
- Or any number of user configerable locations.

Simplebackup is a cross-platform backup program. Simplebackup project reads a configuration file, then it builds a compressed file for each of your backup directories or files on your backup list, and places the compressed files into another location.
For example, this location can be a network mapped drive in Windows, an NFS mounted drive in Unix, another hard disk, an FTP server, or a tape device (Unix only). This will duplicate your information, doing the so called "backup".
Main features:
- Support for several compressed formats (rar, zip, tar, tar.Z, tar.gz, tar.bz2).
- Support for three backup modes: Full ; Incremental and Differential.
- Creates separate backup file for each backup directory or file on the backup list.
- Can read the backup list from a separated text file.
- Support for lists of files to ignore, this will allow ignoring files of any type desired. For example backup all except mp3 and ogg files.
- Support for lists of files to ignore, this will allow ignoring files of any name desired. For example backup all except the files with the name my_boss.png, secret document.doc.
- Support for size limitation on the files to backup, example only backup files up to 1 Megabyte.
- Support for single directory orders by using a special file named [ simplebackup_rejection.txt ] that is placed inside any directory of the backup.
- Allows for the selection of the compression ratio, example, you can use this feature to disable the compression during the backup of a directory that contains mp3 files, since this barely compress at all.
- Can also backup into ftp servers, and is able to use a ftp proxy server (must be in open mode). This gives you the possibility to do backups into any point on the planet across the internet, all that is required is for the remote system to have a standard ftp server.
- Under unix operating systems it can backup into tape devices.
- Also related to tape devices, it can execute any command desired before and after writing to tape, example mt -t /dev/tape0 rewind.
- Works fully unattended, so you can easily program a at/cron job (unix) or task scheduler (windows).
- Automatic backup session management.
- Can manage backup sessions using a local database file.
- Can run a script/batch file/command before the backup, example, you can use this feature to shut-down the database and free the data files for backup.
- Can run a script/batch file/command after the backup, again a example, you can use this feature to bring the database back on-line.
- Can send backup reports by e-mail (using smtp mail servers only).
- Can export the backup reports into any external program(s) or command(s).
- Logs all operations into a file that can be consulted latter.

Puntal is a light content managment system based on PunBB. Puntal does not modify any files of PunBB, but adds six standard modules (news, download, calendar, related pages, planet, and lexicon). 15 options can be enabled or disabled to fit your needs.
A plugin system can be used to add modules easily. A control panel like the one for PunBB is available. Puntal uses the style sheets of PunBB for perfect integration between the portal and the forums. Multiple languages are supported.
Enhancements:
- [bug] fix the install process(foxmask)
- [security] add check date in calendar (foxmask)
- [bug] fix the error call in lexique admin(Morph1er)
- [enhancement] add better url-rewriting(Morph1er)
- [enhancement] fix duplicate content index.php(Morph1er)