Windows over linux

2011-01-25 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi, As far as subversion is concerned, is there any reason to go for one OS over another when setting up a new subversion server? Are any of the hooks or features OS dependant? Olly

Re: Windows over linux

2011-01-25 Thread Stephen Connolly
windows has harsh file locking symmantics, choose linux. (top post because android refuses to let me bottom post.. or let me know what setting to tweak on froyo) - Stephen --- Sent from my Android phone, so random spelling mistakes, random nonsense words and other nonsense are a direct result of

Re: Windows over linux

2011-01-25 Thread shrinivasan
As far as subversion is concerned, is there any reason to go for one OS over another when setting up a new subversion server? Are any of the hooks or features OS dependant? Hooks scripts can be written in python or perl so that they can run on both windows and linux. But, choosing linux i

Re: Windows over linux

2011-01-25 Thread Alexey Bakhirkin
> As far as subversion is concerned, is there any reason to go for one OS over > another when setting up a new subversion server? NTFS (specifically, its implementation in Windows) is often said to have poor performance (not sure whether this applies to subversion). Also if the server only hosts s

Re: Windows over linux

2011-01-25 Thread Jonathan Paul
In here there is a good explanation of NTFS's shortcomings in relation to subversion: http://superuser.com/questions/15192/bad-ntfs-performance I would also recommend Linux for subversion servers

Re: Windows over linux

2011-01-25 Thread Alexey Bakhirkin
2011/1/25 Jonathan Paul : > In here there is a good explanation of NTFS's shortcomings in relation to > subversion: http://superuser.com/questions/15192/bad-ntfs-performance > I would also recommend Linux for subversion servers As far as I can see, that discussion relates to Windows/ntfs vs Linux/

Re: Windows over linux

2011-01-25 Thread Jonathan Paul
That's a good point. The stuff in the link I sent specifically talks about client side stuff - I'm not sure if it also applies to the server, as I don't know enough about what happens at the low level. On 25 January 2011 10:16, Alexey Bakhirkin wrote: > 2011/1/25 Jonathan Paul : > > In here ther

Re: Windows over linux

2011-01-25 Thread Chris Albertson
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Oliver Marshall wrote: > Hi, > > > > As far as subversion is concerned, is there any reason to go for one OS over > another when setting up a new subversion server? Are any of the hooks or > features OS dependant? Choose the OS that is the best stabilty nd the be

RE: Windows over linux

2011-01-25 Thread Thomas Loy
Engineer Cbeyond 320 Interstate North Pkwy. Suite 300 Atlanta, GA 30339 (678) 370-2383 thomas@cbeyond.net -Original Message- From: Chris Albertson [mailto:albertson.ch...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:56 AM To: Oliver Marshall Cc: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: Wi

Re: Windows over linux

2011-01-25 Thread Andy Levy
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:56, Chris Albertson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Oliver Marshall > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> >> As far as subversion is concerned, is there any reason to go for one OS over >> another when setting up a new subversion server? Are any of the hooks or >> feature

Re: Windows over linux

2011-01-25 Thread Andy Levy
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:02, Thomas Loy wrote: > Agreed, but another benefit of any Unix OS is the ability to use symbolic > links.  They aren't in Windows and they give some added stability to some > things you may do such as link a specific version name to a more generic name > you use in t

Re: Windows over linux

2011-01-25 Thread Chris Albertson
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Andy Levy wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:56, Chris Albertson > wrote: > And if the skillset in your shop is primarily Windows, using Solaris > or Linux would require a lot of expensive training, People who grow up with Windows all remember just how hard it

Re: Windows over linux

2011-01-25 Thread Andy Levy
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:45, Chris Albertson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Andy Levy wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:56, Chris Albertson >> wrote: > >> And if the skillset in your shop is primarily Windows, using Solaris >> or Linux would require a lot of expensive training, >

Re: Windows over linux

2011-01-25 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag Thomas Loy, am Dienstag, 25. Januar 2011 um 18:02 schrieben Sie: > Agreed, but another benefit of any Unix OS is the ability to use > symbolic links. Windows Vista onwards provide those and there's a cute little extension for Windows Explorer which make life even easier. http://schinag

Re: Windows over linux

2011-01-25 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Andy Levy wrote: > And if the skillset in your shop is primarily Windows, using Solaris > or Linux would require a lot of expensive training, or hiring an > expensive new system admin (or contracting for one on an as-needed > basis), for a single service. > Yup.

Re: Windows over linux

2011-01-25 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 25, 2011, at 02:43, Oliver Marshall wrote: > As far as subversion is concerned, is there any reason to go for one OS over > another when setting up a new subversion server? Are any of the hooks or > features OS dependant? A Subversion server should run well on pretty much any OS. I reco

Re: Windows over linux

2011-01-26 Thread David Darj
On 2011-01-26 03:37, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jan 25, 2011, at 02:43, Oliver Marshall wrote: If you are equally proficient with all OSes and have no preference, you might want to choose a UNIX-like OS, because many hook script examples will be written assuming that is what you are running. Some

Enough with Re: Windows over linux

2011-01-25 Thread Pat Farrell
Its time to stop the Windows vs Linux vs OS-X discussion, its reached being pointless, and will soon escalate to a flame war. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/