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On 14-10-2010 8:02, James Stallings II wrote:
Bravissimo!On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:58 PM, dz <[email protected] <mailto:[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, butthe "regular" repositories of supported software won't have it. All religious preferences aside, If you want to pick a linuxdistro 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] <mailto:[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 _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users
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