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X-Plane Demo Released for Linux 27

Posted by Zonk from the penguins-can-fly-now-too! dept.
sracer9 writes "The Linux demo for X-Plane has been released. Download it here. Austin Meyer of Laminar Research, the creator of X-Plane, has been reported on previously. The port to Linux has been rumoured for some time, and it's great to see it's finally arriving."
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  • What's nice is... (Score:3, Informative)

    by advocate_one ( 662832 ) on Thursday November 04, 2004 @01:47PM (#10725693)
    it's a bittorrent download... someone's got sense... 21 seeds already... and no comments yet... :)
    • How do u run it on linux
      • that's what I'm waiting to find out... I won't know until I unpack the package... about an hour and a half at my max download rate... I've limited Azureus download rate to 40K/s deliberately so that ordinary web use isn't affected...
        • Right now I'm up to 36 peers with 600 KB/s. I'm rather fond of the Internet2. Web browsing is unaffected.
          • Sweet, I spoke too soon, by the time it was finished I crossed the 1000 KB/s mark.
            • How are you guys getting 1000kb/s off of BitTorrent? I usually peak at like 9 kb's (I'm on a T1 or T3)...maybe the University I'm at has a firewall in place...but there's not much I can do about that.
              • I guess maybe it is because we don't have a firewall that throttles our bandwidth. It could also be because the link was posted on slashdot (so there were many people trying to download it). That was the one and only time I have ever used BitTorrent.

                To be clear it was 1000kB/s (as in bytes not bits). It really wasn't that amazing, considering normal downloads from a single source come in at between 100kB/s and 500kB/s (it seems that the limitation is always on the end of the sender).

                I usually peak at
                • On FTP or HTTP downloads I usually hit anywhere from 400-600 kB's. I'm not exactly sure what connection we're on so I shouldn't have guessed like that. I'm assuming that our firewall slows down BitTorrent considerably...however I've always thought of firewalls to block access entirely to something...not slow it down. I emailed the networking company that does the stuff for our University (Minneapolis) and told them if they have any ports blocked in relation to BitTorrent they should un block them.

  • turn your firewall off!!?? (Score:5, Funny)

    by venom600 ( 527627 ) on Thursday November 04, 2004 @01:57PM (#10725843) Homepage Journal
    A snippet from the page:

    Note: Turning firewalls OFF will speed your transfer rate immensely.

    Yeah...well...there may be some other un-expected side effects of this as well. :/

  • Already downloaded last night (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Omniscientist ( 806841 ) <matt@ba d e cho.com> on Thursday November 04, 2004 @02:01PM (#10725897) Homepage
    Already downloaded this, and it does not include X-Plane 8 scenery, everything else is X-Plane 8 though I guess. It worked very nicely on my Slackware distro.

  • Too late? (Score:2, Interesting)

    by mandreiana ( 591979 )
    We already have FlightGear, here's an O'Reilly article describing it's development and with screenshots: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2003/12/ 11/flightgear.html

    Among developers is one from NASA.

    • Re:Too late? (Score:3, Informative)

      by Make ( 95577 )
      flightgear is a nice project, but it can't bear comparison with X-Plane, by far. X-Plane has its focus on a physically exact simulation of aerodynamics. when you design a new plane in "normal" flight simulators, you have to design both the visuals and give many many hints about its behaviour. in X-Plane, you define the shape, and X-Plane calculates the rest. I was surprised how exactly it simulates the gliders I have already piloted in RealLife(TM) (I'm glider pilot for 11 years now - glider pilots are the

    • Re:Too late? (Score:1, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Flight Gear is junk compared to X-Plane. X-Plane is used in some FAA certified full motion simulators.

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