Thanks, I meant primarily which OS regarding usage of miscellaneous osm tools. I have at various locations read, that some tools work less good under windows, but I do not know if that is representative. (I know that "Traveling Salesman" works pretty strange on my Windows Vista.) In the first place I would be using tools for building my own "made to measure" maps based on .osm maps.
I might later be interested in helping developing or maintaining osm java programs, for example traveling salesman. For the time being that is unfortunately not possible for time reasons, but hopefully that changes. Henning On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:37 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > As I can choose to invest in either windows or Linux, I would like to know which of those two OS is most appropriate to with respect to OSM (and Routing). Any recommendations here? Are you asking regarding building or using OSM tools? I am guessing Russ's answer assumes 'using', so I will answer re 'building'. On Linux, the whole toolchain is free and Free. Linux doesn't have XP, Vista and 7 versions of the Api to re compatible with or trapped on. For many purposes, Java as a portable platform is a OS/device neutral choice. But artful choice of toolchain and technique is still necessary to fit into a java-enabled portable device. And Java still has a execution speed and space penalty against lower level languages and a coding speed penalty against higher level languages. As to hardware, one would think it costs the same, but since there are 'lite' editions of Linux, eg Xubuntu and Knoppix, five year old hand-me-down laptops are often free or cheap and can get a performance upgrade (which isn't what happens with an XP or Vista upgrade). -- Bill [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies -- Praeterea censeo, Bayern Muenchenem esse delendam. ---------- Henning Kaag Mortensen Margarethenstr 12a 82049 Pullach _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
