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

[Steven Monai]

Currently, we're (that is, Spatial Mapping is) running our "production"
MapServer site on Slackware Linux (v10.0). Personally, I use MS4W on my
Windows 2000 PC workstation.

The concept of FGS is basically a "MS4Linux", correct? Has anyone tried out
the HostGIS Linux distribution? (http://HostGIS.com/linux.html) It would
seem that FGS and HostGIS Linux are two approaches to the same end; the
former is designed to install on an existing Linux distro, while the latter
IS a Linux distro with MapServer and associated tools bundled. I would be
very interested to hear about perceived/actual stability, security,
features, etc of either package.

Regards,
-SM
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-----Original Message-----
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:14:36 -0800
From: Tyler Mitchell <tylermitchell at shaw.ca>
Subject: [Mapserver-west] What platform/operating system you running?
To: mapserver-west at lists.maptools.org
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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