[Opensim-users] Book on building mono applications in Linux

[Mike Mazur]

Hi,

On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:22:24 -0400
"Frank W Sweet" <fwsweet at backintyme.com> wrote:

> I am an experienced professional programmer in Windows but I lack
> Linux developer experience. Can anyone recommend a book that teaches
> Linux development (subversion, make, build) but DOES NOT get bogged
> down teaching C#?

You will find that information about a lot of what you need to do with
OpenSim is readily available online for free. For example, the
book "Version Control with Subversion" (aka "svnbook") is at:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/

NAnt is used to build OpenSim on Linux:

http://nant.sourceforge.net/release/latest/help/

You should be able to install everything you need to run OpenSim (mono,
nant, subversion) with the package manager that comes with your Linux
distribution (ie: yum on RedHat-based systems, apt-get on Debian-based
systems). Also, if you're completely new to Linux, you'll probably
benefit from reading about the Linux command line interface. There are
a few, but chances are you'll be using bash. There are plenty of bash
resources online:

http://www.google.com/search?q=bash+shell+for+beginners

So, in general, if you need to learn something new, look it up on the
web and learn as you go. :D

HTH,
Mike