Oct 19 2007
OK, we’re at 10 Million – and one OpenSim!
The main page at SecondLife.com has lost its counter of resident accounts, but a year’s worth of calibrated experience suggests that the count is rolling over 10 million about now.
Much more concretely, it is with IMMENSE pleasure that we are happy to welcome a new collaborator avatar Rat Dawg, new to Second Life this month, but very persistent with the following of directions from OpenMetaverse. A wonderful recycling of an ancient 1 GHz Celeron with 1.5 GB of memory, fresh installs of Ubuntu Feisty, Mono, and OpenSim have made a new world!
The current SecondLife client 1.18.3 (5) worked swimmingly; sculpties were fine as long as they didn’t emit light (whereupon they reverted to toruses!) and the modifications of terrain were laggy. Otherwise it was an awesome thing to see stuff happening like uploads without any visible debiting of L$, and the uploads were near-instantaneous over the local network.
OpenSim is at Alpha 0.4, but most assuredly worth a look. Having success with it in a Windows-free environment, learning more about Mono and getting major (open source) environmental benefits from it is so fine. Thanks to Ubuntu, I really start to feel like some of my brain cells are awakening from a twelve-year-long, NT-induced stupor. What’s more, I really have a much warmer, fuzzier feeling about collaborating with dotNET developers, knowing that their fine work need not run on servers beholden to Redmond WA.
-=Darb
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