Board of Governors Roger Curtiss Posted January 14, 2009 at 06:50 PM Board of Governors Posted January 14, 2009 at 06:50 PM I am contemplating the purchase of a dedicated gaming computer and I have seen the following available: AMD Athlon X@ 4.2 GHz dual core processor 500GB SATA hard drive 2 GB RAM ATI Radion 512mb video card This sytem uses a Linnux Ubuntu 8.10 operating system. I have no experience with anything but Windows systems. Is this OS a good choice for running flight sim/VATSIM programs? Is thjere anything else spec-wise I should be looking for? Thanks for any insights Roger Curtiss VATGOV12 VP-Virtual Airlines & Special Ops r.curtiss(at)vatsim.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Krajcar Posted January 14, 2009 at 07:00 PM Posted January 14, 2009 at 07:00 PM Your FS+VATSIM options are limited to X-Plane/XSquawkBox and there is no non-Windows radar client. FlightGear is another sim I am aware of that runs on anything but I don't know of a VATSIM client for it. I wouldn't consider running Linux on a dedicated gaming computer... there are so few games that can be played on it But what's to stop you from purchasing a copy of Windows and installing it on the machine? Tim Krajcar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Oliver Posted January 14, 2009 at 07:06 PM Posted January 14, 2009 at 07:06 PM For running Linux it'll fly, however FS9/X and most windows apps will not run on Linux (and vice versa). You *can* run some Windows apps either through VMware which pretends to be a PC but you have to install Windows anyway or through Wine which traps Windows calls. Wine does not support DirectX (AFAIK) (not designed to at this moment), while Vmware pretends its a PC so you get everything that Windows can do but what you're effectively doing would be running FSxxx on Windows on Vmware on Linux so you're not going to get the performance you need; I'm not 100% sure how Vmware deals with the virtualised graphics hardware. The graphics card probably could be better - Nvidia have very good Linux/Unix support, no idea about Radion however. What software do you want to run? Otherwise, Ubuntu is a very nice distribution, very stable and thought out. Lots of applications available - I personally use Ubuntu for general day-to-day computing, Solaris on the server and only have Windows for FS9 machine. Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erhan Atesoglu 1050499 Posted January 14, 2009 at 07:46 PM Posted January 14, 2009 at 07:46 PM Just had to add this but in my circle of friends, a dedicated gaming PC is simply an Xbox360 http://www.pond64.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Board of Governors Roger Curtiss Posted January 15, 2009 at 12:52 AM Author Board of Governors Posted January 15, 2009 at 12:52 AM Thanks for the input. I think I will p[Mod - Happy Thoughts] on this particular setup and look for something Windows based instead. Roger Curtiss VATGOV12 VP-Virtual Airlines & Special Ops r.curtiss(at)vatsim.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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