Thanks Chris for your reply.
Strange that you've had such big problems with SL on Ubuntu; I've had
none of that; in the beginning it was somewhat buggy but now everyting
is fine; it works even better then on Windows I hear from people, but I
never tried that myself.
I am also curious about what will happen when Linden open sources the
servers as they have planned.
Best wishes and hope to see you one day or another on Second Life,
Catharina
Chris Warburton schreef:
I think it's a good idea to have an Ubuntu group/island-type thing on
Second Life, and for it to be in a kind of cluster of related
projects, but I will not join it myself, and the same will probably
apply to lots of other Ubuntu users too.
The reason? Wel, I was introduced to Second Life by my girlfriend
after hearing lots about it but never really investigating. When I
heard that the client was becoming open I thought I'd see if there was
a Linux version. Well, there is but it doesn't work for me. After a
couple of hours getting dependancies, tinkering with 32bit libraries
(my system is 64bit), trying a few different graphics drivers for my
laptop's crappy embedded ATI chips, etc. I just gave up. I like the
idea of Second Life, and I know that efforts are underway to package
it for Debian/Ubuntu but at the moment it is just completely
inaccessible to me (and I'm sure others too. I think Melissa Draper
blogged about it a while ago). For things like this to work there
needs to be pressure on LindenLabs and others to make the software
work more easily (for example, letting me just log in would be a great
start, since chatting with others would still be a great help even if
the avatars were just represented as coloured dots on a black screen,
then features such as 3D graphics, sound, etc. could be enabled for
those that are capable of displaying them)
Best of luck with the initiative though, and I have nothing against
you or your idea, I just get frustrated by companies assuring me that
their products "work on Linux", but then finding either that a lot of
work is involved (SL), or it is just false advertising (ATI).
Regards,
Chris Warburton
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