got say loved the idea of an open source simulator and specifically something to hammer microsofts dominance. but after a couple of weeks trying to get it running, and then finding a question on the same thing from someone else that had no resolution (several replies but no resolution) I'm utterly fed up.To me it just proves a point - open source is fine if your a geek and can solve any problem yourself. but for the less technically minded masses its probably not a good idea - you get a potentially flakey product with no support that you might never get working

>got say loved the idea of an open source simulator and>specifically something to hammer microsofts dominance. >>but after a couple of weeks trying to get it running, and then>finding a question on the same thing from someone else that>had no resolution (several replies but no resolution) I'm>utterly fed up.>>To me it just proves a point - open source is fine if your a>geek and can solve any problem yourself. but for the less>technically minded masses its probably not a good idea - you>get a potentially flakey product with no support that you>might never get workingThat's not true.You said, that you like to hammer microsofts dominance andyou want have support (BTW: that's something you never get from microsoft) so the correct solution is to buy a Linux distribution from Suse/Novel or Redhat and you will have both, support and hammering Microsofts dominace.And the other good thing about linux is also, that flightgear is better supported on linux, because the flightgear developers use linux.