linux

[pompeyjohn]

unless my eyes are playing tricks on me I think I saw a server marked as 'linux' online the other day.

does this mean that soon linux powered servers will be possible?
or that linux will soon be possible as a client?
or none of the above?

i thought this was all directx'd up, so suprised [but excited] to see that things might be moving in the linux direction.

[marktigere1]

Absolutely!!!

I have a server and thin client setup at home running SUSE 10.1 as the server and LTSP as the thin clients.

The highest spec machine I have is an HP 700MHz machine with 200MB of RAM. (Try running Vista on that!!)

Its great

Long live the revolution!!

Cheers

Mark

[robgt]

does this mean that soon linux powered servers will be possible?

Soon??
They're everywhere!

LOL
Cheers,
Rob

[pompeyjohn]

They're everywhere!

shh... you'll scare the windows and mac users.

[marktigere1]

shh... you'll scare the windows and mac users.

Nah, they already know their numbers up

[robgt]

Didn't mean to scare anyone
LOL
Cheers,
Rob

[DbyMA]

Lowest spec I've still got operational is a 486DX266 16MB Ram running RedHat 6-ish with web, ftp, ssh, etc. services on it.

[inferno]

Ok so before i start a new thread, anyone fancy earning a few beers and helping/telling me how, to run pheonix on Ubuntu?

Im still very new to linux, but rather linux and no sim to windows and a sim! so linux and a sim i might take to the air again!!

Thanx in advance.

[robgt]

Unless it runs in WINE, I doubt you've got a hope...
Even then...
Cheers,
Rob

[inferno]

Well i have wine installed but never used it....

[robgt]

I'm afraid I don't know enough about Linux to help further...
Cheers,
Rob

[marktigere1]

Wine is not able to run all Windows programs.

We tried porting one of our Datalogging applications to it at work.

Whilst the application ran initially, it fell over when it tried to use an RS232/USB port.

I would guess Pheonix may have a similar problem.

Is there a Pheonix demo available to download and try?

Cheers

Mark

[pompeyjohn]

In terms of WINE...

it is known to struggle with some .net applications. Phoenix looks to have been built using at least the 1.1 framework; possibly 2.0.

Graphically it will struggle because where Phoenix is written to communicate with the video card at a directx level.... an emulator will not be able to do that. 'WINE' recursively Is Not an Emulator, but the same rule applies. Any graphical computation would have to be done by the CPU and pushed along by RAM. Unless you have a beast of a machine I dont think this is going to work.

You could try running PHoenix within a valid XP environment that is hosted by Ubuntu. I am not sure but I *think* the latest version of VMWARE workstation has directx8 libraries. That software is free in a gratis sense of the word, not libre.

Your other option might be to look at using virtualbox in a seamless mode - it would mean more grunt from your system is needed (as the X windows manager is still involved), but it does look pretty damn cool.

Good luck with this. I'd like to hear how you get on.

[applematt]

admit it you'll need to get your a55 over to windows to play phoenix.... hehehe - coming from a mac user!

os x 10.5 all the way.... bootcamp for windowz & flight sims - grrrrr
on my mac book pro, i'm not happy about it but what else can i do when its raining and i want to have a flight on the mac... if ya gonna run windowz at least do it in style on a mac book pro!

[Ashley Davis]

phoenix runs in wine, I've done it before, haven't tried on my latest Ubuntu build.