[wolfen]

Ok guys and gals, I had to dump xp cause it completely fell apart and my old copy wouldn't run on this Visa computer, but I currently have Vista running fine and FS, FS2, and SCP all  runs like a champ.
My question is will they run on Linux Ubantu?
Only reason I'm asking is next Time I have a windows O/S crap out on me I'm gonna be completely done with M/S O/S's

[The E]

Wiki to the rescue!

http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Guide_to_FS_Open_on_Linux

You can probably skip building your own executables and use the precompiled binaries instead, but the rest of the guide should help you get set up.

[wolfen]

Ahhh much thanks oh wise one who moved this to where it belongs
I bookmarked the wiki just in case, cause I remember when I first got this computer, I dumped Vista off it cause nothing worked LOL, well for now everything works. But ya never know with M/S

[Galemp]

Yeah, I wrote the quickstart guide because I was baffled. It should help you out.

[Jeff Vader]

There are also Joif's instructions for those who care.

[wolfen]

I have this thread bookmarked
Gonna install the 40 gig hdd in the computer this weekend and install Ubantu on it will be nice to have the best game ever made run on Linux
I gotta know if I can do the stuff on Linux I do on windows, if I can I'll probably dump windows altogether LOL.

[S-99]

If the current cross platform launcher doesn't work well, or you don't feel like compiling source code. Then install wine in linux, install openal for windows, download the fso windows launcher, then configure the game as you wish from the windows launcher, hit apply when done, close the launcher, and run the linux executable.

Don't bother trying to run fso windows executables in linux with wine, because it's not necessary, and you'll get some serious in game mouse issues (the fso windows executables don't run quite as flawlessly compared to the launcher with wine) which the linux executable doesn't have.

That's how i've configured fso under linux for years. There's not a single problem using the windows launcher to configure the game under linux. The launcher is more for 95% configuring the game with only 5% for actually running the game because launcher devs decided to include a button that starts the game.