[Opensim-dev] Prepackaged OpenSim installs

[Frisby, Adam]

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: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-dev-
> bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Robert A. Knop Jr.
> Sent: Saturday, 19 September 2009 8:23 AM
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> 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
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>   Home Page: http://www.pobox.com/~rknop/
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