[ubuntu-za] Linux Desktop

[Alfred Charles Stockton]

It does not look as though requirements are too onerous. The manual says:-
A medium speed AMD Athlon64 or Intel P4, even a decent AMD Athlon/K7 or an
Intel PIII should be sufficient to handle FlightGear pretty well, given
you have a proper 3D graphics card.

One important prerequisite for running FlightGear is a graphics card whose
driver supports OpenGL. If you don’t know what OpenGL is, the overview
given at the OpenGL website  http://www.opengl.org

says it best: “Since its introduction in 1992, OpenGL has become the
industry’s most widely used and supported 2-D and 3D graphics application
programming interface (API)...”.

I've currently got it running on a Raspberry Pi with the following specs:-
Pi 3 Model B 1GB made by Sony in UK
+-------------------+
| Drive Utilisation |
+-------------------+
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root        15G  6.0G  8.0G  43% /
devtmpfs        460M     0  460M   0% /dev
tmpfs           464M     0  464M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           464M   13M  452M   3% /run
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           464M     0  464M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1   43M   23M   21M  52% /boot
tmpfs            93M     0   93M   0% /run/user/1000

+-------------------+
|    Free Memory    |
+-------------------+
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache  
available
Mem:         949448       40960      684708        6300      223780     
849876
Swap:        102396       72412       29984

> Hi Alfred,
> If you let me know the minimum specs for the game you're wanting to
play, I can quote you on building a desktop for you that will provide
everything you need. The system will have a one year warranty. I will
install the Linux repro of your choice. I have approximately 25 years
experience in building PCs.
> Let me know if you're interested.
> Robin Bownes
> 073 600 8863
> infinitive at bownes.co.za (or reply to this message off-list)
> On 2019/01/08 09:35, Alfred Charles Stockton wrote:
>> I am looking to buying/building a desktop with a good amount of storage to
>> use to backup my systems as well as pretty good graphics capability so
that I may run my Flight Simulator system(FlightGear). I am not looking
for latest, greatest all bells and whistles hardware, just something I
can
>> work with.
>> It must have WiFi built in to allow access to my current systems. It
must have capability of accessing, reading/writing, SD cards. It must
have a CD/DVD drive.
>> All hardware MUST be linux compatible as I have no intention of running or
>> paying for Windows software.
>> Any ideas where one should look to get such a device?


-- 
Regards,
Alf Stockton