Free lonely 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)

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.

Fracplanet is an interactive tool for creating random fractal planets and terrain areas with oceans, rivers, lakes and icecaps.
The results can be saved in POV-Ray format. The code is licensed under the GPL. Fracplanet project uses Qt and OpenGL.
Enhancements:
- The main addition in this release is the ability to export the terrain as a texture map, with or without relief shading.
- A DEM (Digital Elevation Model, or height field) and normal map are also written.
- For planets, the textures are a cylindrically projected latitude/longitude map (this is directly usable as a spheremap in POV-Ray).
- The illumination direction is now controllable from the GUI, and swirly spiral weather systems can be added into the clouds.

NLQ.py is a quick and dirty (with an emphasis on both) python module that attempts to parse an incoming "Natural Language" query, like "How many keywords does Python have?" and "Why do I get this rash when I pet my cat?" I needed something like this for a project that I was working on and this is what I came up with in the course of an evening.

NLQ.py is implemented as a Python class (class NLQ). For every NLQ you have, you declare an NLQ object and give it the string. The object takes the string, chops it up and attempts classify it and extract the relevant pieces. This is all gone over more in the class definition.

NLQ.py is pre-pre-pre-alpha. I have no AI experience. I have no relevant language experience. The design of this may change at any time. The woman that you think is your mother is really a being from another planet placed there to raise you until youre old enough to have your True Purpose revealed to you. Pro wrestling is real.

nandBot is a Perl IRC Robot which is intended to be used on UNIX systems. nandBot is extensible using the built-in plugin interface and is localizable using Locale::Maketext.
Main features:
- Seen, Factoid
- Google Search
- Dictionary/Spell check
- Calculator
- Extensible with plugins
- Localizable using the Perl module Locale::Maketext
Enhancements:
- Added a README
- Bug fixes
- New netdiag plugin: dns and whois (IP Addresses only)
- Fixed google plugin to use less color and other yucky stuff
- Changed/removed a few unused items in the translation lexicon
- Added NickServ plugin
- Time::HiRes (used for pings) is now optional
- Added on_notice and onconnect events
- Now parses numeric 005 for chantypes and nickprefixes
- Admins to be auto-opped when they join
- Fixed mode command
- Fixed bug in improved factoid parsing
- New auto-reconnect feature
- Fixed bug in the plugin system, plugins will work more than once now
- Finished implementing login system.
- Added access levels, 10=admin, 5=helper, 0=normal, -1=ignored.
- New column in database. You must run upgradedb.pl or configure.pl
- All spell checking will now be performed by the google plugin if it is to be loaded.
- Factoid parsing has been improved, now supports - with recursion detection!
- Implemented factstats author and factstats author NICKNAME
- Translators: Added 12 new messages and 4 new commands.
- configure.pl can now import from Legacy nandBot
- IRCPoints column added to the database, and are now supported.
- You must run upgradedb.pl or configure.pl
- Fixed upgradedb.pl so that it would work.
- Added "periodical" handler for plugins. This will be explained in the soon-to-be plugin documentation
- Updated all helper scripts and plugins to use strict;
- Added VERSION handler
- Translators: Added 6 new IRCPoints messages.
- Changed file naming convention for log messages, along with some other minor logging changes
- Added support for logging of joins, parts, quits, nicks, topic changes, kicks and mode changes. Scriptable handlers for these events are coming soon.
- Translators: Two new dunnos: quark and planet
- Added login system. Translators: 3 new messages, 7 new commands
- Fixed strange bug in dbdump.pl
- Security update: By connecting to a malicious IRC server, nandBot could execute arbitrary perl code. This also causes nicks with brackets [] to work.

GNOME War Pad is VGA Planets client for GNOME 2 desktop platform. It aims to develop a full featured client, including scripting Python support.
VGA Planets is a play-by-email space conquest strategy game, it can be played by 11 players max. This game is being played by strategy fanatics all over the world for some years now, is very addictive and there are several servers on the Internet that host various kinds of this games.
Well, first of all this game is great, I thank Tim Wisseman for his creation, secondly its very cheap to register it (I think 5 USD) and if you dont want to register it, you still can play it with some limitations. Plus, because this game was developed for DOS, almost all clients existing this days are for DOS or Windows, and since Im a GNU/Linux freak, Im tired of playing VP with dosemu, its just too slow! :-)...so thats my itch, I wanna scratch it as ESR says.
Actually, there isnt a GNU/Linux client for VP that Im aware of, I know that PCCs author, Stefan Reuther from Germany, is porting his excellent client to GNU/Linux using the SDL library, this is great! but again, GNOME deserves to have its own client, so I started this project as an excuse to learn how to program for GNOME, and also to polish my C programming skills.
This software is Free Software, released under the GNU General Public License, you may copy, modify it and redistribute it under the conditions of this license.
Enhancements:
- this is a major milestone in this projects development because now the player can make some real actions into the game! no more viewing-only! Enjoy!