Robert Osfield wrote on Friday, May 16, 2008 10:10 AM: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Thrall, Bryan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Robert Osfield wrote on Friday, May 16, 2008 3:04 AM: >>> Use of Windows for a visual simulator is not something I would >>> recommend, the file system performance sucks big time, memory >>> management and threading support is not great either. Install a >>> modern Linux and you'll probably find many of your issues gone. >> >> Not that I'm a big Windows fan, but I feel obliged to say an >> industry-grade flight simulator can run just fine on Windows, once >> Windows has been tweaked properly. My own company has several such >> simulators certified level D by the FAA :) > > But it would very likely run better under Linux, with less special > care to avoid all the pitfalls of the Windows platform. > > There was a time when the best hardware for the job only ran properly > under Windows, now this is no longer the case, Linux and OSX have > caught up. Windows XP is at end of life, and Windows Vista performance > is poor for OpenGL apps. While Linux just goes from strength to > strength.
Is there any way I could get you to convince my coworkers of that? :) -- Bryan Thrall FlightSafety International [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
