[Opensim-users] Why not a real OS

[Ideia Boa]

  like James St.
Bravo!! Bravissimo!!!!!

Joao Lopes aka Ideia Boa
worldSimTerra Grid


On 14-10-2010 8:02, James Stallings II wrote:
> Bravissimo!
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:58 PM, dz <dz at bitzend.net 
> <mailto:dz at bitzend.net>> wrote:
>
>     Folks,
>
>     Not to add to the religious fervor....    but there's a couple
>     things that are just NOT right about letting the mis-information
>     slide.
>
>     It's very popular for proponents of each side to wave magic
>     metrics and declare victory in a race that could have just
>     begun.     People don't come to this list to ask your opinion
>     about Linux vs.Windows  IN GENERAL, they want to know what easiest
>     with OpenSim.
>
>     Its extremely disappointing to me to see that discussion drown out
>     by the "know-it-alls" spewing their answers.
>
>     OpenSim uses .NET as a platform,  as such, If you intend to RUN
>     OpenSim, you can do it either as a native .NET application under
>     windows, or on non-windows OS using the open-source MONO environment.
>
>     Among the advantages of using Windows servers:
>         Historically, it has provided better operating performance for
>     regions.
>         Most of the developers seem to be prefer the Microsoft toolchain.
>         There are no threats of c## "subterfuge" by MS ( the risk of
>     these seems very small)
>
>     Among the advantages of Mono OS independence:
>         Wider range of server platforms ( via  OS and hardware
>     independence )
>         Like all smaller free software efforts, the best way to
>     support it is to USE it and make it better
>
>     If you select MONO based server platforms, it will pay for you to
>     do your homework on your selection.  Contrary to prior posts, many
>     of the popular Linux releases  (UBUNTU in particular) are
>     notorious for NOT supporting the latest release of MONO.   That is
>     not to say that you cannot build the latest version of MONO, but
>     the "regular" repositories of supported software won't have it.  
>     All religious preferences aside,  If you want to pick a linux
>     distro with the latest and greatest MONO has to provide  I would
>     recommend you go to the Novell  SuSe distribution.
>
>     There are always arguments on both sides of the questions that
>     touch the religion wars off.  For me, in this project, the most
>     telling sign that Windows is the "preference" of the core
>     developers  is that there is still little or no support for the
>     MONOdevelope IDE.  Make and build on Linux from source still
>     depends on the old-school command line tools.  Lots of people are
>     comfortable enough with their Linux skills to cope with that
>     requirement..
>
>     Personally,  I'm one of the "irrational" believers that we vote
>     loudest with our actions, so I pay to host linux machines for our
>     internal OpenSim development machines, and generally make it known
>     I prefer NOT to pay Microsoft whenever that option presents
>     itself.   Your Satisfaction is not guaranteed by adopting that
>     plan  :)
>
>     D.
>
>
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