[Opensim-dev] Opensim: Linux vs. Windows

[Wade Schuette]

*Assuming *you or someone is *equally* comfortable with both operating 
systems,  and given my last 47 years experience with running computers,  
I'd pick an open-source operating system every time.    Windows is 
poorly designed, and talking to people who worked on the design team, 
they agree the design environment was chaotic, and not psychologically 
or job-safe for people who had issues with design decisions.

We ran a literally life-and-death mission-critical hospital system on 
Solaris,  (admittedly a vendor product from Sun at the time) and it was 
up for 630 days without a reboot or downtime, when we took it down to 
move its location in the machine room.    We had to cycle the windows 
servers daily to keep them from dying from some ill-designed memory 
leak, etc.

Wade Schuette - MBA, MPH, and all but thesis on a Masters in Computer 
Science and Engineering.
retired.


On 9/15/11 2:24 PM, Levi Martson wrote:
> Hi folks, I'm looking for some input on what you think is a better OS 
> to run mission-critical OpenSim instances on: Windows or Linux. I 
> currently run on Windows, but I'm starting to run mission-critical 
> instances, and if Linux is better than I want to move to that. Any 
> thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Levi
>
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