FlightGear Newsletter September 2014: Difference between revisions

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Also, Hooray recently built fg on a dual-core netbook with Intel GMA graphics (1gb RAM) to see if/how well Canvas is supported there (some people reported white RTTs due to lack of FBO support) - it is true that doing this more regularly would probably help identify certain issues much earlier - it seems that a few contributors are still trying to spin up FG once in a while on their old computers - Thorsten repeatedly mentioned doing that for regression testing purposes when testing his own work.  
Also, Hooray recently built fg on a dual-core netbook with Intel GMA graphics (1gb RAM) to see if/how well Canvas is supported there (some people reported white RTTs due to lack of FBO support[http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=21496][http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=20887&p=192091]) - it is true that doing this more regularly would probably help identify certain issues much earlier - it seems that a few contributors are still trying to spin up FG once in a while on their old computers - Thorsten repeatedly mentioned doing that for regression testing purposes when testing his own work.  


But FG would indeed be in a better shape if had some way to do this more often, possibly automatically on some kind of headless build/regression testing server - which kinda is what a few people have been working towards:
But FG would indeed be in a better shape if had some way to do this more often, possibly automatically on some kind of headless build/regression testing server - which kinda is what a few people have been working towards:

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