XCruise
 by N/A - Thursday, January 13th 2000 02:01 EDT

About: XCruise allows you to fly around your filesystem, displaying each directory in / as a "galaxy". When close enough to a galaxy, files inside display as "stars" with the size and color dependent on file size and permissions. This does NOT require OpenGL or Mesa, as graphics are wireframe.

Author:
Yusuke Shinyama <euske at cl dot cs dot titech dot ac dot jp>

 Branches

BRANCH	VERSION	RELEASE DATE	LICENSE	URLs
Default	0.24	22-Feb-2000	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] :^)
by lunix_fan - Jan 13th 2000 13:21:47

This program is so cool... I can't wait to show it to some friends...

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[»] Now this is one cool app...
by TomB - Feb 23rd 2000 13:38:01

Entirely useless but absolutely amazing. Point this at /dev! Wow, you'll never need LSD in front of your Linux box again ;-).

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[»] In Total Agreement!!!
by voodoo.child - Feb 26th 2000 14:32:41

A fantastic program which is amazingly easy to use. I love the way symlinked files are actually physically linked together - take a look at /usr/lib! It would be great if the "planets" could be selected for some form of file management (view properties, rename, delete, etc...) perhaps with some kind of aircraft style targeting system:-)

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[»] Actually useful!
by zsazsa - Feb 26th 2000 22:23:39

I've used this program to demonstrate how the Linux/Unix filesystem generally works.. it's good for those who can't get the concept of symlinks or what the /dev or /etc directories are for, etc.

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