I don't think FS9 runs on Linux using Wine, although I didn't try this either.
I work with Linux since many years, as my real life job is as a network engineer. I also use Linux as my primary desktop both at home and at work, except for when I am playing (this is when I use Windows). I hardly could do any work using Windows now.. it seems to me so strange, non-ergonomic, tasks are hard to perform by using a lot of clicks and searches through unnumbered panels and options. Give it a try for your tasks.. but if you fail to do something, ask somebody. A lot of things work different here, and you need to be patient.. it is like wanting to go from driving a car to flying an airplane.. different controls, different rules..
But lets go back to the idea of running Flight Simulator on Linux. I will give it a try someday, but chances are very low to be true. On the wine site, in the applications database Flight Simulator, this is the review for it:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=278Also, there is a commercial wine package, which has extensive directx support and it is told to run a lot of games. Its name is winex. This should have better chances to run it, but these are the reports from their site:
http://www.transgaming.com/gamepage.php?gameid=490 http://www.transgaming.com/gamepage.php?gameid=174Probably the reports there are more close to the reality, as if somebody could run it would have report it there, together with a running configuration. Transgaming, as seller of a commercial product would have even more interest to report accurate information, to sell their software better.
So guys.. try linux for what it can be for you: an efficient working environment when you get used to it, with good tools, higher reliability and performance, better security at application and system level. Probably some of its software is good and works well (for example now i use mozilla even on windows as i find it better than internet explorer/outlook), some still needs work to be done. But at least don't look at linux as a Windows replacement, because it is not. It is just a different operating system, with its own way to do things. Its all about chosing: some will like its way, some will like windows way. You cannot tell until you know both. And don't be dissapointed when FS2004 will not work in linux.. because it was never made to work with it.
by Silver1SWA » Sun Jan 18, 2004 3:47 pm 
What I am afraid of is how much time it will take. I want to fly. I have been goofing around with so many other things in FS9, I haven't been flying as much as I want to. 
:'(
