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like James St.<br>
Bravo!! Bravissimo!!!!!<br>
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Joao Lopes aka Ideia Boa<br>
worldSimTerra Grid<br>
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On 14-10-2010 8:02, James Stallings II wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:58 PM, dz <span
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Folks,<br>
<br>
Not to add to the religious fervor.... but there's a couple
things that are just NOT right about letting the
mis-information slide.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Its extremely disappointing to me to see that discussion drown
out by the "know-it-alls" spewing their answers.<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
Among the advantages of using Windows servers:<br>
Historically, it has provided better operating performance
for regions.<br>
Most of the developers seem to be prefer the Microsoft
toolchain.<br>
There are no threats of c## "subterfuge" by MS ( the risk
of these seems very small)<br>
<br>
Among the advantages of Mono OS independence:<br>
Wider range of server platforms ( via OS and hardware
independence )<br>
Like all smaller free software efforts, the best way to
support it is to USE it and make it better<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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.. <br>
<br>
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 :)<br>
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