To follow on (loosely) from the recent topic about a "browser" for aircraft to make it easier for newbies:
The other way (at least with linux) to accommodate newbies(*) is to package the sim, its various terrain and scenery, and its aircraft in RPMs or a similar system. I just did this with the Colditz Escape Glider - it dovetails in nicely with the Fedora Core RPMs that I've already made available on: ftp://tallyho.bc.nu/pub/steve/flightgear/0.9.9 look in the RPMS/noarch directory for the glider package, or the RPMS/i386 directory for the sim itself. If a set of packages like these are put on a 'yum' server, it all becomes pretty trivial for a newbie(*) to obtain what he/she wants complete will all the prerequisites in a single operation. (*) More likely, experts who just want to try out the sim and not to have to understand all the vagaries of FlightGear before doing so. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
