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Glest? No further questions, your honor.

Please make use of a search engine and your pair of brains.

Here's been your deb for a while: http://www.playdeb.net/software/megaglest

The Linux installer installs to your /home. The fact that it won't ask for administrative rights could tell you something.

Here's where non-installer packages have been around for a while:
http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=5785.0
http://sourceforge.net/projects/megaglest/files/

Try it. It's a strategy game, and FOSS. Unusual combination. http://glest.org/

Put Glest on there as well ( http://www.glest.org/ ) Very polished looking RTS. From their website " Glest is a free 3D real-time strategy game, where you control the armies of two different factions: Tech, which is mainly composed of warriors and mechanical devices, and Magic, that prefers mages and summoned creatures in the battlefield. "

It is available from Ubuntu repositories.

Silly, it's Tech vs. Magic.

http://glest.org/en/index.php

First would have to be TA Spring, a fully 3d reimplementation of Total Annihilation and many mods and maps for it.

Then Warzone 2100 (Resurrection), a revival of a great commercial RTS game that was Freed a few years ago.

Bos Wars is by far the best and most polished of all the games based on the Stratagus(formerly FreeCraft) engine, but

Also, Globulation 2 is pretty fun, if a bit less deep than the others in terms of strategic options.

Finally, Glest is a fun from-scratch fantasy RTS game, not as polished as the others though.

Those are the ones I have installed. Of them, I play TA Spring the most, and Glest the least.

For those that are interested, here are my prized OSS Windows applications and their links. Sorry for such a long post, but hopefully this'll be interesting to someone.
Entertainment:
Audacity
Version: 1.2.3
License: GNU General Public License
Link: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Sourceforge Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/
A fast multitrack audio editor and recorder for Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Supports WAV, AIFF, Ogg, and MP3 formats. Features include envelope editing, mixing, built-in effects and plug-ins, all with unlimited undo.
Battle for Wesnoth
Version: 0.9.1
License: GNU General Public License
Link: http://www.wesnoth.org/
Sourceforge Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wesnoth/
The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Supports online multi-player.
Blender
Version: 2.36
License: GNU General Public License
Link: http://www.blender3d.org/
Open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for Windows, Linux, Irix, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD or Mac OS X.
CDex
Version: 1.51
License: GNU General Public License
Link: http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
Sourceforge Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/
CDex is a CD-Ripper, thus extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application supports many Audio encoders, like MPEG (MP2,MP3), VQF, AAC encoders.
Celestia
Version: 1.3.2
License: GNU General Public License
Link: http://celestia.sourceforge.net/
Sourceforge Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/
Celestia is real-time 3D space simulation which lets you travel through our solar system and to over 100,000 stars in our neighborhood.
Glest
Version: 1.0.9
License: GNU General Public License
Link: http://www.glest.org/
Sourceforge Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/glest/
Glest is a project for making a free 3d real-time customizable strategy game. Current version is fully playable, includes single player game against CPU controlled players, two factions with their corresponding tech trees, units, buildings and some maps.
Scorched 3d
Version: 38.1b
License: GNU General Public License
Link: http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
Sourceforge Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scorched3d/
Scorched3D is a 3D remake of the popular 2D artillery game Scorched Earth. Scorched3D can be played against the computer, other players and remotely across the internet or LAN.
VLC Media Player
Version: 0.8.1
License:

Try burnatonce (www.burnatonce.com). It's very simple and to the point. It itself is not open source, but uses open source projects.

My favorite OSS for Windows:

Glest (www.glest.org) - fun RTS game with commercial quality graphics / sounds.
Battle of Wesnoth - fantasy TBS game.
vPod - for loading music on my iPod.
Filezilla - nice FTP client / server
Putty - SSH / Telnet client
XChat - www.silverex.org - yes, it's a GPL windows compilation.
7-zip - Unpack .zip .tar .rar .ace .rpm .deb, etc.
DevCPP - C/C++ compiler IDE.
PDFCreator - self explanitory.
SciTE - I use this instead of Dreamweaver at work.
Audacity - Recording audio (rarely used, but a quality app).
ClamAV - No-bloat antivirus.

Well, from the list in this very thread, glest is RTS.