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color:#1F497D'>Excellent post. So good in fact, that I will hijack it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>If there are people that have tried (and failed) to use “prebuild
/target monodev” to build and work with opensim, I would be interested to hear
about it. Afaicr at some point in time (years ago, when we first introduced
prebuild) we did get it to work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>/Stefan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> opensim-users-bounces@lists.berlios.de
[mailto:opensim-users-bounces@lists.berlios.de] <b>On Behalf Of </b>dz<br>
<b>Sent:</b> den 14 oktober 2010 19:59<br>
<b>To:</b> opensim-users@lists.berlios.de<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Opensim-users] Why not a real OS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>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>
<br>
D.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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