Look into Flight Gear.
Binaries/Source available for:
Windows
Linux
Mac OS X
Solaris (sparc/x86)
sgi
FreeBSD
Perhaps not as polished as FS (yet) but getting there.
I did look into it. I don’t like it. I am studying X-Plane though. It may be good enough to replace FSX, which I already own. Bah, I might have to dual boot Vista and have them both.