[Opensim-dev] Prepackaged OpenSim installs

[diva at metaverseink.com]

I've just made a binary distro this week, and will continue to maintain 
and improve it. HG standalones only, no need to edit .ini files by hand, 
and includes an Update tool.
http://www.metaverseink.com/blog/?p=21

(I thought I had sent a note, but maybe it was only to -users)

Robert A. Knop Jr. wrote:
> 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....)
> 
> 
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