The OSGrid Binary Installs are generally pretty good - Neb does a good job with them. I generally use them whenever I need a quick region setup.
Adam > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:opensim-dev- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert A. Knop Jr. > Sent: Saturday, 19 September 2009 8:23 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Opensim-dev] Prepackaged OpenSim installs > > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 04:31:26AM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > > Surely, a single page step by step account of (at least) how to > > configure and run OpenSim is, in essence, MANDATORY. Otherwise all > > the hard work and effort on the project is absolutely worthless. If > > the average person cannot get a single stand-alone region running on > > their home computer within 5 or 10 minutes then it's all in vain. > > I'm entirely a Linux user myself, so I don't know the answer to this, > but -- there are binary distros for windows available, are there not, > for OpenSim? How friendly are they to get started? > > Next question : is there somebody in the OpenSim team who's taken on > the mantle of providing binary distros and making it easy to install? > > I'll look into it, but I might be willing to try to take up the job of > providing at least some of that for Linux builds. > > (Aside: I'm a n00b to opensim-dev. To those who haven't met me on IRC, > I'm Rob Knop, itenerant astrophysicist & computer engineer. I was a > professor of Physics & Astronomy at Vanderbilt until 2007, and from > 2007 to 2009 was Prospero Linden, production operations engineer and > later server release manager for Linden Lab. I currently don't have > long-term employement, but am working with MICA (www.mica-vw.org) on N- > body simulations, and using virtual worlds as both a collaboration > platform and a visualization platform. This has naturally led me to > OpenSim as an open source server that lets us do fun things you can't > do without source code and your own servers running the code....) > > -- > --Rob Knop > E-mail: [email protected] > Home Page: http://www.pobox.com/~rknop/ > Blog: http://www.sonic.net/~rknop/blog/ _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
