Flight Gear Flight Simulator: Free, Open Source flight simulator. | Linux Today

Flight Gear Flight Simulator: Free, Open Source flight simulator.

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 30, 1998

A featured software package today is the “Flight Gear Flight
Simulator”. They are a group of developers working on a free
(GPL’ed) Flight Simulator program, capable of running on Linux and
various alternative operating systems.

There website features well-written documentation, excellent
screenshots, hardware information, and binaries or source code
available for download.

Visit their webpage at http://www.flightgear.org

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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