Personally, I use Red Hat 7.1 and have had no problems building FlightGear. I have had some problems upgrading to 7.2 so I have stayed where I am. From the friends that I have who use Linux, Debian seems to be the preferred distribution. Debian has a superior package manager, but I have found old versions (2.2) to be rather difficult to install (OK, I prefer the graphical installation process of RH). I am planning to transition when 3.0 arrives (soon?).
Jonathan Polley p.s. I have had none of the problems with OpenGL that is warned in the FAQ and am running gcc 2.9x, rather than 3. On Saturday, March 16, 2002, at 06:23 PM, Greg Long wrote: > I don't want to turn this into a distro debate, but I'm fixing to > install Linux on my Thunderbird 1333 /1gb RAM workstation mostly for the > purpose of joining in on development. > > My question is primarily this: Other that personal preference, is there > any major need to install Debian over RedHat Linux 7.2 for FlighGear > development? I notice the gcc issue in the FAQ, but I should be cool on > that with 7.2, though I'll check. > > I have a friend who might join in as well, and he has an OpenBSD setup. > If there are any known issues with FlightGear work on that platform > please advise. > > I'll study the program and source some more and get it to compile before > I mouth off with more questions :) > > Greg - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
