On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 16:57:20 +0100, Durk wrote in message <200902011657.20734.d.tal...@xs4all.nl>:
> Hi Daan, > > On Sunday 01 February 2009 15:56:14 Daan wrote: > > > > (After getting rid of my ATI card in favor of an nVidia one, > > > > see my question in the forum) > > > > > > ..hang on to your ATI, try it with a Linux Live CD, e.g. > > > Ubuntu.com, and then do "sudo aptitude install flightgear" and > > > try FG the way God meant it to be done, and only then decide. ;o) > > > > Ai, Linux (Ubuntu 6.06) throws this nasty one at me: > > > > First of all: welkom. Altijd leuk om te zien dat onze kleine groep > Nederlanders goed vertegenwoordigd blijft. ;-) > > That aside, let me just add a message of caution. The original person > suggesting that you should dig into the world of linux live CDs has a > tendency of pushing his personal antipathy against Microsoft onto > this mailing list. People who have been around here a bit longer tend > to ignore him. While most of the developers, myself included, indeed > do have a personal preference for Linux, I would like to mention that > this is not an official project policy. Multi platform compatibility > is a major design goal, windows is an officially supported platform, > and we respect anybody's personal choice in these matters. > > I'm just writing this for two reasons. First because in the past I > have seen other people go down this path on the basis of this ill > informed advice, and end up in major trouble with getting FlightGear > off a live CD to work. There are some specially prepared FlightGear > Live DvDs, but that's rather different from what was suggested. > Secondly, I recall reading on the forum somewhere that this pushing > towards Linux is a source of annoyance among many windows users who > have come here for help. > > The only specific situation where I can see that we would explicitly > ask somebody to try an alternative OS, is where we have a specific > hypothesis about a bug / feature affecting one OS, and not the other. > I don't really see that this applies here. ..I may be wrong, but I can see that applying here. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
