The FlightGear team working on a new release and are about to get rid of the last showstopping bugs. The next revision number would be 0.9.11 but there have been objections to that. Guess why. They might call it an 1.0 version actually - which is almost unusual for an open source projects that has been 10 years in the making without ever exceeding the 1.0 version mark.As an unofficial (hopefully not unwelcomed) contribution, I am considering to crunch the FlightGear World Scenery on a single DVD download using a slightly lossly compression method (as opposed to the 4 DVD set that is currently available via BitTorrent, weighing in at 14 GB). This download will come with an installer for Windows, later maybe also Linux. The installer will provide the choice of either decompressing the scenery upon installation or deploying some modified FlightGear DLLs that can load the scenery in compressed form (with some performance penalty). This package would be available a few weeks after the official FlightGear release, I hope.The high compression ratio of was possible because the scenery files contain a lot of redundant information (normal vectors, texture coordinates) that can also be generated from the stored geometry within. And for encoding the sets of coordinates I can use some smart predictive coding techniques. Beats gzip compression for sure ;)Christian

Wow, the whole world on a single DVD? That would be great.