Ed Greenberg wrote:
> Ron Jensen wrote:
>
>> I haven't flown keyboard in years. :D
>>
Yeah, I don't miss it, either. :>
> I appreciate that flying keyboard is silly, but I discovered this in the
> office, where joysticks and throttles would be out of place.
>
> No FlightGear at home yet... There are issues on Fedora 10, at least
> with my nVIDIA. Not ready to diagnose and ask for help yet.
>
> </edg>
>
On a different topic...and this isn't intended to start a flame war,
but Nvidia cards above "2" (like Geforce 4, 5500, 6xxx etc) are all new
enough to have an almost hands-off install of the cards AND of
FlightGear under Ubuntu. It's a really smooth, simple place.
I started with Redhat 4.0; coming from Slackware 2.3's THIRTY
floppies and no X server (though I was suppose to come up with sensible
defaults to make one) Redhat was miles ahead. I stayed with it until
Fedora 9, and never though Debian, or anything like it could be as good.
Then I was fighting hard to get Fedora's OpenLDAP packages to work.
People all over the net were telling me "Here, use my config to test"
and nothing worked. This went on for months! That is, until they
announced their purchase of Netscape's Directory Services and then all
the sudden OpenLDAP worked just fine again.
I never noticed the RPM "Dependency Hell" much...until I came to
Ubuntu. I think it was Dapper. I've been on it ever since! And just
like I don't notice the virus BS that I used to have with Microsoft, I
don't notice the problems of Redhat in the same way.
Think about it; they make decisions based on general good, not
business-specific issues. And life is so easy there! Linux has come a
LONG way. "aptitude install flightgear" gets all this installed, and
just about any USB joystick, Nvidia card, and you're home free!
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