fs9 and linux

[cleobis]

Hi, anyone knows if it is possible to use fs9 in a linux ambient? and if so, how the fps compare to winxp?

thks

[jordonj]

From what I know of Linux, you would have to run it in an emulator.  This would take most of the hardware to do so, and so you would get pretty poor performance.

Best just to stick with XP or 9x for FS9!

[cleobis]

thks for the input:)

[gw]

There are three approaches that I know of:

1. There is a freeware package called wine that is aimed at running windows programs on linux.  The last time I checked it wasn't up to running fs9 yet but it probably will some day.

2. As jordonj said there are emulators.  One is bochs (say 'box') that emulates a PC on any system that will run it.  This might work but the performance wouldn't be great because bochs emulates all of the PC instructions in software - all of them.

3. Another approach to emulators is something called VmWare.  I use this guy daily to run linux on windows.  Performance is good because it uses the underlying hardware to run the "guest" O/S.  There is also a VmWare for linux that will let you run windows on linux so you might have some success at running fs9 on windows on VmWare on linux.

My favorite approach, however, would probably be to use x-plane or flightgear instead of fs9.  Both of these run on linux.

gw

[cleobis]

thks for that info:) I'll have to do some further investigations and see if it will compensate the workload on doing all this stuff

[jordonj]

Anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but Linux is more practical as a server OS.  It will work just fine as a Desktop PC OS for specialized applications, but it's rather obtuse...

Like Apple OS, it is not nearly the gaming platform that Windows XP is...though games do exist for it...