FlightGear 2.4.0 release multi-platform Flight Simulator basics

FlightGear 2.4.0 Many components of this version have been overhauled extensively.

FlightGear is free software, a multi-platform flight simulator, which began in 1997. 1997 the first release continued to develop, and in December 2007 released the 1.0.0 version. The main operating systems for the project include Linux,microsoft Windows (Win), Mac OS X,irix, and Solaris, which need to support OpenGL version 1.0. The latest version is the 2.0.0 release of February 25, 2010. The software licensing agreement is the GNU General public License, so it is free software.

Windows (XP, Vista, 7)

Download the self extracting/installing "Setup flightgear 2.4.0.exe" (410 Mb): [Mirror 1] [Mirror 2] [Mirror 3]. Or BitTorrent.

Macintosh OS X (supports OS X 10.5–10.7)

Download the MAC OS X installer courtesy of Tatsuhiro Nishioka HERE:FLIGHTGEAR-2.4.0.DMG. Or BitTorrent

Linux

Slackware:download Slackware Packages courtesy of Jon Stockill. Packages are available for Slackware 12.2 and the bit and bit versions of Slackware of 13.37. (Updated for v2.4.0)  Gentoo:download Gentoo Packages courtesy of Christian Schmitt. (Both v2.4 and "Git snapshot" options are available.) Ubuntu (option 1): FlightGear v2.4 packages are now available from playdeb.net ubuntu (option 2): On Ubuntu, FlightGear can DWORD using the "synaptic" tool. Ubuntu (option 3): Here are directions for compiling FlightGear v2.4 on Ubuntu 10.4