Linux server

[Simoyd]

are there any plans for a linux server?
it would be way more efficient if i could stick all this stuff on my linux server, cause anyone whe runs windows as a server machine is just crazy. Its kind of a pain having to leave a windows box on all the time just to run this server.... If the client can be converted, cant you just compile the code on a linux box and copy the database from the windows box to the linux box?

[sterwill]

The Windows client is written in C++, using MFC. The Unix client was a port of that code base to Gtk; both are maintained separately. The server was originally written in Java, and required the VSS automation component to be available on the server machine. We've ported the server to C# for 4.0, which may run on Unix with mono with a few tweaks, but the VSS automation component would also need to be run on the server. That's part of VSS, and we don't have any code for that.

It may be possible to run the SOS server on Intel servers running Unix, assuming mono and Wine were installed, but as far as I know, no one has ever tried this.

[Guest]

ok thx for the info

[ftoledo]

will the server released over GPL licence?

Software Libre!

The Windows client is written in C++, using MFC. The Unix client was a port of that code base to Gtk; both are maintained separately. The server was originally written in Java, and required the VSS automation component to be available on the server machine. We've ported the server to C# for 4.0, which may run on Unix with mono with a few tweaks, but the VSS automation component would also need to be run on the server. That's part of VSS, and we don't have any code for that.

It may be possible to run the SOS server on Intel servers running Unix, assuming mono and Wine were installed, but as far as I know, no one has ever tried this.

[ericsink]

will the server released over GPL licence?

No.