No apology required. It was an observation on pure semantics, and not a big deal personally. Some can be quite fervent in their loyalty to a certain OS or server, but I'm not one of them.
I think one of the largest chunks of brain food for me to digest - in the move from a closed to open server system - is the trinity of dependencies, locations and permissions. 1 Something you're trying to get running depends on something else to be already there and running too. Install packs like RPM and APT have made great strides on this front... 2 There's no dictator to tell everyone where everything absolutely goes. Consequently, you can spend extra time telling one thing where the other thing actually is. 3 The difference between a system that can't find a file, and one that doesn't have permission to use a file, is not always obvious. So, while these things represent a totally unexpected pain in the butt for newcomers (and even gurus - who desperately want to provide a turnkey install for their open source gizmo), they actually contribute to the security and power of an open source system... I think. I hope the results will benefit all who want to run OpenBD on IIS. Since both animals are (or contain) stand-alone web servers (one is MS & the other is Java - if you wanna talk about wars!) I look forward to how it all turns out. Alan K. Holden Scott Sledgister wrote: > My apologies Alan! I did not mean to offend anyone about this nor was I > trying to flare up the OS religion war! > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en official site @ http://www.openbluedragon.org/ !! save a network - trim replies before posting !! -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
