OGL App question

I was looking through the app and came across some things that made me beleave that Sl uses opengl. I was wondering it anybody could conf this for me. And if so why is there not a *nux version of SL and if there is where can I find it???? My best comp is running gentoo so im stuck playing on my o-so-crappy laptop. =< The other reason is that im deciding between a ATI or NVidia based Vid card. IF sl uses OGL then I am going NVid otherwise if its using DX then its ATI.

-thanks in advance.

SL does use OGL (OpenGL). Supposedly they're working, or someone else has been commisioned to work on a Linux port, there is currently no known Linux client however.

Some have successfully been able to run SL under Wine and other emulating software, you may try searching the forums for threads about it as I've got no idea how to do it.

I know card preference varies from person to person, but I use ATI and SL runs fine for me, there was a time when SL was very buggy on ATI, but all of these quirks have been solved (I think). But like I said, it's all personal preference.