[Mapserver-west] What platform/operating system you running?

[Chris Clements]

We are running Windows XP sp2, using the binaries from
http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/ as well.  We are running version 4.2.3 of
MapServer on an Athlon 900 mhz, 768mb RAM. The computer is a bit old, but I
needed to show that this project could work, without investing in a new
server for it.

We are looking at replacing this with a new server now.  The replacement
will be for running MapServer, PostGIS, Geoserver.
I am wondering, is there an advantage to going with Linux or should we stick
with Windows?  Will there be a difference in performance??  I do not have
any experience with Linux but am pretty keen to learn it.

Any suggestions, pro or cons either way. 

Thanks,
Chris




-----Original Message-----
From: Tyler Mitchell [mailto:tylermitchell at shaw.ca]
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 8:15 PM
To: mapserver-west at lists.maptools.org
Subject: [Mapserver-west] What platform/operating system you running?


I'm always curious to know more about the operating systems people are
running 
MapServer on.  What about you?  I run it on SuSE Linux for web-accessible 
production sites and on Windows XP for internal corporate tests.  
On Windows, for quick testing and out of the box functionality I use the 
MapServer For Windows (MS4W) package from http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/.

On Linux I usually compile my own but need to give the FGS package a try 
sometime soon.  We started this project a while back and it has since 
permutated a bit, but it is a great first cut of an online installer for 
modern Linux platforms.  See http://www.maptools.org/fgs/

What about you?

Tyler
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