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The traditional sliding box puzzle game. The object is to push all the boxes into the designated output squares without getting any stuck where they can't be moved. Pretty graphics (requires the xpm library).

License: free

This is a fun little space shoot-em-up game. Although the documentation and web page are in Japanese, you don't need it. It's standard Galaga-type fare, but well done at that. Bad guys come in waves followed by a big baddie at the end of each level. To help you, dead bad guys leave goodies in the form of power-ups and your choice of three guns.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: SDL and SDL_image is highly recommended --- plain X version is not maintained very well

A multiplayer spaceship combat simulation. It's very alpha and was quite buggy on my system (the readouts would disappear from time to time).

License: free

Another tetris clone, for X11. No special effects or pretty backgrounds, but you can (via the standard X resource mechanism) redefine the keyboard/mouse mappings to your liking to emulate just about any other Tetris out there.

License: free

This is a simple yet tricky board game played on a 4x4 board. If either player is forced to lay down a tile which completes a line of four tiles which share a common property, that player loses.

License: free

Xtraceroute is a graphical traceroute utility that shows the path your IP packets travel on a 3 dimensional rendered globe. Be sure to download the NDG data files mentioned in the INSTALL document too.

License: free

Additional System Requirements:

• An OpenGL implementation, like Mesa
• the GTK library
• GtkGLArea, an OpenGL widget for GTK (see the xtraceroute homepage for location)
• the tiff library