Entertainment:

“World Wind allows any user to zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth, leveraging high resolution LandSat imagery and SRTM elevation data to experience Earth in visually rich 3D, just as if they were really there.”

Big Buck Bunny is a follow-up to the successful “Elephants Dream” open movie project by the Blender Foundation. The concept is ‘funny and furry’, go watch right away! It’s free!

Accompany three German hillbillies discovering the American culture on a weird road trip and see how they stumble into the American way of life as outsiders.

Stray Cinema is an open source film. Users are able to download and re-edit raw footage from a film shot in New Zealand, providing people from all over the world with an opportunity to create their own version of the film.

One of the world’s first full-length open source movies, Boy Who Never Slept tells the story of an insomniac writer who happens to meet a teenage girl online.

Elephants Dream is the world’s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license.

The Elisa Media Center allows you to watch your own movies and video clips as well as those found online. It features an intuitive interface with a professional look and feel which can be easily used with a standard TV remote control.

LMMS (Linux MultiMedia Studio) is a free alternative to popular (but commercial and closed- source) programs like FruityLoops/FL Studio, Cubase and Logic allowing you to produce music with your computer.

Frets on Fire is a Finnish music video game created by Unreal Voodoo in which players use the keyboard to play along with scrolling on-screen musical notes to complete a song, and is a clone of the Guitar Hero video game series.

This is a screensaver which displays an animated version of M.C. Escher’s Print Gallery drawing. It is based on work done by Hendrik Lenstra and Bart de Smit.

Electric Sheep is a screen saver run by thousands of people all over the world, it communicates with other computers via the internet to share in creating morphing abstract animations known as “sheep”.

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer that shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors.

Celestia is the free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.Celestia is expandable, seamless and covers over 100, 000 stars.