Comments on: Linux users: Please don’t run X-Plane with sudo!

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:04:40 +0000

In reply to Jorge. We will either do one more pull at the end of 11.10 or right after (e.g. 11.11 or 11.15).

By: Jorge

Jorge — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 11:30:59 +0000

Great update, work almost flawless for me. And congrats for you communication policy, I find it really cool to read the blog and learn what’s going on with the product.

One question, will you include more updated airports from the gateway in future beta releases of 11.10? Ive seen many interesting updates that were uploaded at the end of October.

Keep up the great work

By: Stanislaw Halik

Stanislaw Halik — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 11:15:53 +0000

Present a box at software startup with big red letters explaining the matter, with links. Don’t allow for closing the box for sixty second countdown. Only after the countdown perform asset loading and any other functionality. Make sure closing the box in any way before the countdown end shuts down the entire process. Run the box inside the main process, not in a wrapper as to prevent tampering.

By: Michael M

Michael M — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 03:13:18 +0000

In reply to Ulrich.

The same issue (still) applies and solution works for Ubuntu 14.04LTS and 16.0LTS and likely many other distros, too.
Here is my favored solution and it also explains why rudder pedal permissions usually go wrong: https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/110413-xp11-joystick-permissions/. It pretty much works for all ruder pedals on the market and also for most linux distributions – as long as you can find where the udev rule directory is.

By: Tyler Young

Tyler Young — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 02:05:24 +0000

In reply to Marc Westhofen. Glad to hear you had a good experience! We're working on striking the right balance between communicating with people reporting bugs and, well, you know... fixing bugs. :) Long-term, we have big plans for a public-facing X-Plane bug database (of the kind we run on the Gateway), which would be a massive upgrade in terms of feedback for reporters, but that requires major development time... development time that could otherwise be spent improving X-Plane. For the foreseeable future, our plan is to just keep working on our email game. :)

By: Marc Westhofen

Marc Westhofen — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 01:58:32 +0000

Sorry for this off-topic post, but I really need to say this:

Thanks a lot for your now outstanding transparency at bug handling!
I filed a bug through the reporting system (false field elevation at KLAS scenery) and almost immediately received a confirmation mail by Jennifer with a link to the status page of this bug. Well, it was only changing one single digit in the apt.dat but hey, it was fixed within 5 hours only! This is impressive when reading what other items you’re working hard on.

I know it is extra work for Jennifer – sorry about this – but it is really cool to see how you internally prioritize bugs and how/when you deal with it. I really appreciate this!

It is really amazing how much you listen to your customers. This level of transparency and customer interaction is pretty rarely seen at other software companies!

Carry on with your amazing work.

Regards,
Marc

By: Ulrich

Ulrich — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 22:08:29 +0000

I don’t know whether this is still current, but it sounds interesting as well: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/512349-Wrong-joystick-permissions

By: Tyler Young

Tyler Young — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 02:07:50 +0000

In reply to Andre Maloney. I've certainly been guilty of that laziness before! Can't figure out what the permissions should be on this? Bam! chmod 777! ;)

By: Tyler Young

Tyler Young — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 02:05:25 +0000

In reply to DreamKeys.

Ben suggested the complete text of this post could be:

> Seriously, don’t.

…but I thought I should expand on that a bit. 😉

By: Andre Maloney

Andre Maloney — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 23:55:14 +0000

Why do people run as root?

Because they are lazy, ignorant, or both.

*nix SysAdmin 20+ years