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Unlike most commercial software, the project release dates only apply to a release of code, not an executable program. To create a runnable program the code must be compiled, which requires several specific libraries, including some general ones and, in some cases some platform specific ones. However, since this too difficult for most mainstream users, other contributors will work to make binaries available for a specific platform and operating system. These packages vary in their stability, performance, dependencies, and how up to date they are with the code base. For example, some older binaries work on Mac OS 9 but newer releases require specific Mac OS X versions.
Unlike most commercial software, the project release dates only apply to a release of code, not an executable program. To create a runnable program the code must be compiled, which requires several specific libraries, including some general ones and, in some cases some platform specific ones. However, since this too difficult for most mainstream users, other contributors will work to make binaries available for a specific platform and operating system. These packages vary in their stability, performance, dependencies, and how up to date they are with the code base. For example, some older binaries work on Mac OS 9 but newer releases require specific Mac OS X versions.


For example, by late 2007 the latest code release was 0.9.11-pre1 (pre-release) and 0.9.10 (final). However, the actual binaries available vary significantly. Examples of actual binaries available a year after the release of the 0.9.10 code release:
For example, by late 2012 the latest code release was 2.10 (pre-release) and 2.8.0 (final). Binaries are generally available for the last final code release on all major platforms. Examples of actual binaries available currently:


* Win-32 has ~138 Mb package (v0.9.10) (For Windows 98, 2000, ME, 32-bit XP)  
* Windows has ~640 Mb package (v.2.8.0) (For Windows XP, Vista, 7)  
* Linux- pre-built packages for specific Linux distributions
* Linux- pre-built packages for specific Linux distributions
** Slackware package (v0.9.10), Fedora Core 2,3,4 packages (v0.9.10), Pardus (v0.9.10), Debian (v0.9.9)  
** Slackware 14 (v2.8.0), Fedora Core 18 (v2.8.1), Ubuntu 12.10 (v2.6.0), Debian sid (v2.6.0)  
* Solaris packages either for it running on either SPARC or x86 processors.
* Mac OS X, 10.6-10.8 (v2.8.0)
** SPARC (v0.9.8),  x86 (v0.9.9)  
* FreeBSD has a package for (v2.6)
* Silicon Graphics IRIX
 
** SGI binaries for (v0.9.9)  
[http://www.flightgear.org/download/main-program/ Click here to proceed to the flightgear binaries download page]
* Mac OS X
 
** Mac OS 10.4 (v0.9.10)
Binaries for other platforms such as IRIX are no longer supported, although pre-1.0 releases may work and can be found in the [http://gitorious.org/fg/ git source code repo].
** Mac OS 10.3 (v0.9.9)
* FreeBSD has a package for(v0.9.10)


==Applications and usages==
==Applications and usages==
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* [http://www.flightgear.org Official website]
* [http://www.flightgear.org Official website]
* [http://fgfs.i-net.hu/ Community website]  
* [http://fgfs.i-net.hu/ Community website]  
* [http://flightgear.org/forums/ Forums]
* [http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/ Bug Tracker]


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