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Australian Defence Force Builds $1.7m Linux-Based Flight Simulator
scrubl writes "The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has revealed its latest flight simulator runs on SUSE Linux-based clusters of Opteron servers and uses an open source graphics platform. The Defence Science and Technology Organisation's (DSTO) Air Operations Simulation Centre in Melbourne creates virtual worlds that allow pilots to experience real-world combat situations without leaving the ground. The visuals software was written in OpenGL, using commercial and open source scene graph engines and making 'heavy use of OpenGL Shader Language programs.'"
Kangaroos with stinger missiles?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Instead of going with a licensed OS like Windows or VxWorks, they saved tens of dollars. Smart thinking and good use of money in these tough economic times.
It would be nice to see other departments try to realize these types of gains.
I remember what happened last time they built a simulator.
In the Australian Defense Force?
No in the Australian Defence Force
sudo apt-get install oz-flight-simulator
`echo $[0x853204FA81]|tr 0-9 ionbsdeaml`@gmail.com
Very cool, thanks! I was really impressed until you said "1GHz ethernet". That seems... unlikely =D
Does it run lin--
Oh wait.
http://CryoLANparty.com/ A lan I'm staff on!
That's an Americanism. We're talking about Australia. The summary even spells it Defence
Did you not see the WOOOOSH?
And it can make the Kessel run in 12 parsecs.
Uh, I'm New Here