Re: [gentoo-user] [Less OT] Tally ho! - RC Flight Sims on Linux

[Joost Roeleveld]

On Monday 30 June 2014 01:26:48 wabenbau@×××××.com wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 16:26
>
> schrieb Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>:
> > wabenbau@×××××.com wrote:
> > > Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 20:38
> > >
> > > schrieb Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>:
> > >> On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 21:29:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > >>>> Please folks, stop that crap. It has nothing to do with gentoo or
> > >>>> computers at all. If you wanna discuss the delightfulness of war
> > >>>> machines then please to this at another place and not on this
> > >>>> list.
> > >>>
> > >>> Allow me to introduce your to my good friend "Delete" and his
> > >>> lovely wife "button"
> > >>
> > >> Or you could filter anything with OT in the subject to /dev/null.
> > >> It's not like this thread is masquerading as something relevant.
> > >
> > > That's not the point. If you wanna talk about stuff that's
> > > apparently absolut useless to almost every member of this ML, then
> > > you should do this at another place. Especially discussions with
> > > politically and or military background are IMHO absolutely
> > > inappropriate.
> > >
> > > But hey, maybe I'm wrong. Why shouldn't we talk here about
> > > everything that cross one's mind? We could mark it as OT in the
> > > subject line, so it should be no problem for everyone. Maybe we
> > > should discuss the local daily weather? I think, that's a pretty
> > > good idea as it would increase the noise level of this list even
> > > more. What do you think?
> >
> > Just a FYI.  I have in the past asked questions about Windoze XP on
> > this very list.  Why, I'm not joining a windoze mailing list for just
> > one question and I know a lot of people on this list know about
> > windoze as well.  I have seen other topics raised on this list
> > before.  It's not often but it does happen.  I see Gentoo threads
> > that don't interest me at all and I just mark them as read and move
> > right along but I don't tell folks that I don't want to see them.  I
> > could start with systemd. If I see systemd in the subject, I mark it
> > read and move right along usually without reading even the first
> > post. Why, I don't use systemd so I am certainly not interested in
> > it.  There are other threads that I do the same thing with.
>
> That's right. But all examples you've mentioned are computer related
> topics and maybe useful for anyone on this list.

We can turn this into a computer related thread.

Anyone know of a way to get a flight-sim (for model planes) to run on Linux?

I have a legit copy of Realflight ( http://www.realflight.com ) and occasionally 
have to boot into a legit copy (yes, all my software is 100% legit) of MS 
Windows.

Ideas welcome.

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Joost