[Opensim-dev] Prepackaged OpenSim installs

[Robert A. Knop Jr.]

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:    rknop at pobox.com
  Home Page: http://www.pobox.com/~rknop/
  Blog:      http://www.sonic.net/~rknop/blog/
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