Orbiter; flight simulator, can it run?

[AICollector]

A few months before I switched, I found this really, REALLY good game called Orbiter. It's a free flight sim, not only can you fly around the world (with sattlite imagery) you can also leave the atmosphere and fly to other planets (or planetoids, if you prefer), even landing on them. (all in real time, but you could of course speed up the simulation)

In my experience, it was the best flight sim ever created, with a large community building more content for it.

BUT, I've been attempting to run it in Ubuntu, and I've had no luck. :( has anyone had better luck then I?

PS; I think this is something that would definatly add to Linux entire, if it could be put into a more approachable format...you listening, you software geniuses? :P

[Mr. Picklesworth]

OMG another Orbiter person! Indeed, that simulator makes me feel so small. Still, I could figure out the space shuttle, and (once even without a tutorial) managed to get into orbit / dock with ISS. I was so happy with myself that the whole week felt awesome :)
And then this one time I even landed it without dieing, which it turns out is kind of important.

I remember a long time ago, Martin was saying the next release (the one after 2006) would have a split front-end and back-end, which would theoretically (though indirectly) help for compatibility via Wine. The new front-end is open source and I think uses OpenGL, so we just have to hope Wine likes the crazy math stuff beneath it all.

Here's the page for Orbiter on WineHQ's compatibility database:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2269

Edit:
Downloading the public beta for 2009(or 10) right now! We shall soon see...
http://orbitervis.wiki.sourceforge.net/OrbiterPublicBeta

(Gaaaargh I hate CVS!)