Bravissimo! On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:58 PM, dz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Folks, > > Not to add to the religious fervor.... but there's a couple things that > are just NOT right about letting the mis-information slide. > > It's very popular for proponents of each side to wave magic metrics and > declare victory in a race that could have just begun. People don't come > to this list to ask your opinion about Linux vs.Windows IN GENERAL, they > want to know what easiest with OpenSim. > > Its extremely disappointing to me to see that discussion drown out by the > "know-it-alls" spewing their answers. > > OpenSim uses .NET as a platform, as such, If you intend to RUN OpenSim, > you can do it either as a native .NET application under windows, or on > non-windows OS using the open-source MONO environment. > > Among the advantages of using Windows servers: > Historically, it has provided better operating performance for regions. > Most of the developers seem to be prefer the Microsoft toolchain. > There are no threats of c## "subterfuge" by MS ( the risk of these > seems very small) > > Among the advantages of Mono OS independence: > Wider range of server platforms ( via OS and hardware independence ) > Like all smaller free software efforts, the best way to support it is > to USE it and make it better > > If you select MONO based server platforms, it will pay for you to do your > homework on your selection. Contrary to prior posts, many of the popular > Linux releases (UBUNTU in particular) are notorious for NOT supporting the > latest release of MONO. That is not to say that you cannot build the > latest version of MONO, but the "regular" repositories of supported software > won't have it. All religious preferences aside, If you want to pick a > linux distro with the latest and greatest MONO has to provide I would > recommend you go to the Novell SuSe distribution. > > There are always arguments on both sides of the questions that touch the > religion wars off. For me, in this project, the most telling sign that > Windows is the "preference" of the core developers is that there is still > little or no support for the MONOdevelope IDE. Make and build on Linux from > source still depends on the old-school command line tools. Lots of people > are comfortable enough with their Linux skills to cope with that > requirement.. > > Personally, I'm one of the "irrational" believers that we vote loudest > with our actions, so I pay to host linux machines for our internal OpenSim > development machines, and generally make it known I prefer NOT to pay > Microsoft whenever that option presents itself. Your Satisfaction is not > guaranteed by adopting that plan :) > > D. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users > > -- =================================== http://simhost.com http://osgrid.org http://twitter.com/jstallings2 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/5/770/a49
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