FlightGear Reaches v2.0

distantbody writes "The flight sim project FlightGear has reached version 2.0. From the website: 'Highlights of this new version include: Dramatic new 3D clouds, dramatic lighting conditions, improved support for custom scenery, and many many new and detailed aircraft models.' Full list of improvements here. And of course the screenshots. The release coincides with the release of SimGear v2, the 'set of open-source libraries designed to be used as building blocks for quickly assembling 3d simulations, games, and visualization applications' on which FlightGear is based."

Comments

Their web server?

[Das Auge]

Crash and burn...

Re:Their web server?

[Elektroschock]

I mean honestly, who expected Flightgear to take the place of FlightSimulator... That is the advantage of such open source software. It develops.

Re:Great work, FlightGear team!

[Anonymous Coward]

FlightGear has a long way to go before it can rival Microsoft Flight Simulator X.

Re:Great work, FlightGear team!

[Anonymous Coward]

FlightGear is still being maintained.

Re:YouTube

[Joce640k]

Is it just me or do the clouds have massive depth-sorting problems at 1 minute 45 seconds...?

Re:windows only

[farble1670]

why obviously? they generated a windows dist. that's the attitude that keeps linux from moving forward on the desktop ... telling people they need to compile it from source before they can use it.

Re:Great work, FlightGear team!

[BitZtream]

Have you seen x-plane 9? It beats MSFS in every way, including graphics now.

A suggestion

[Anonymous Coward]

If you're going to post to Slashdot saying "Come download our new version!", do us all a favor and set up a torrent and a tracker.

Re:windows only

[advocate_one]

A) Most Linux users are capable of compiling their own apps, its rather common since most Linux distros come with a compiler, and you've almost certainly compiled things in the past for that app that doesn't work right on your distro or in your setup or whatever it happens to be due to the millions of possible combinations of distros and base software distrubtions, you can assume nothing about the environment you'll be running in when you distributed compiled binaries 'for Linux'. Packages for a specific distro are another matter, much easier to deal with for a particular version.

got news for you the vast majority of Linux users do not know how to do this anymore... most distros do not need you to get down and dirty in the command line to install software... the package will be there in the repositories, not necessarily the absolute latest, but a recent stable one.