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X-Plane Demo Released for Linux

Posted by Zonk on from the penguins-can-fly-now-too! dept.

sracer9 writes "The Linux demo for X-Plane has been released. Download it here. Austin Meyer of Laminar Research, the creator of X-Plane, has been reported on previously. The port to Linux has been rumoured for some time, and it's great to see it's finally arriving."

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  1. Already downloaded last night by Omniscientist · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Already downloaded this, and it does not include X-Plane 8 scenery, everything else is X-Plane 8 though I guess. It worked very nicely on my Slackware distro.

  2. Too late? by mandreiana · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We already have FlightGear, here's an O'Reilly article describing it's development and with screenshots: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2003/12/ 11/flightgear.html

    Among developers is one from NASA.