On 03/11/09 16:18, Brian Fahrlander wrote: > Sid Boyce wrote: >> I haven't tried Flightgear on other than SuSE/openSUSE, their distro >> version was pretty useless, so I have always built my own. >> No problems with Nvidia cards, I tend to run on the latest vanilla >> kernels and I provide feedback on their driver, VirtualBox and any other >> packages that fail so the developers know what the next kernel complains >> about - fixes are often very speedy indeed. >> There was a longstanding problem with CH Yoke and Pedals dating back to >> around 2.6.15 where the devices had to be replugged after a reboot for >> the controls to function, however acting on a patch that fixed a CH >> Joystick, I altered the source to include my devices along the same >> lines - it worked and is now in the mainline kernel since May this year. >> > I found a pair of small, el-cheapo rudder pedals at Goodwill for $2. > It has a serial connector- hope it's not gonna be a lot of work to get > it going. (I could sure use the rudder pedals...) > >> Apologies for the digression, but it shows what could be done with Linux >> going back 14 years. >> > My daughter loves trucks; she doesn't have money for their care, but > she loves them. One day she trades her small, cheap-to-own car for a > big, gas-drinking truck. The hood was always open on it. I pointed out > she needs a *car* to get to work. The car was a way to get to work, the > truck is a project and may not get her to work. > > Similarly, everyone needs one machine that holds their work...but is > NOT their work. A collection of tools, documents, whatever, but a stable > machine you can admin without thought. And knowing Redhat as I did, > knowing Ubuntu as I do now...that's Ubuntu. And FlightGear is so simple > to put-and-keep going; it's a low intensity way to 'have it all'. > > Ya really should look into Ubuntu Karmic. Nice, simple place to keep > your stuff and springboard into your projects....without becoming one! >
No problems with openSUSE here, so I see no reason to switch. I also have two guys 80+ and 68+ using openSUSE for all their stuff, web, digital camera work, music, burning CD's and DVD's, word processing, skype and a lot else they discovered themselves. The 68 year old ex-bus driver came from a donated P166 with W2K installed, six month's total experience and the 80 year old ex-welder had never used a keyboard before, so I even had to show him the keys and demonstrate their use. He enrolled in a class for Seniors and was able to do his spreadsheet and WP assignments using the Linux box - the guy even does his online updates. All calls I have had in the last 3 years have been with broken hardware and the very occasional "HOW-DO-I". Another old guy gets into a mood where he will reinstall openSUSE, Ubuntu and Mint all in one week, run with them for a good while, then he will go with Windows for a while and returns forgetting all the Linux stuff he'd done before. Back in the late 1990's I was given the task to provide a Tools CD that our guys could add to their Linux distro and at that time I was running SuSE, so I had to switch the RedHat as that what the guys Stateside preferred. When that was done, I changed back to SuSE. Right now I run a whole bunch of distros under VirtualBox VM's, however, the Kubuntu update left a non-bootable VM, so I have to install 9.10 afresh. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
