Will you mostly run SL under Linux when the new client comes out, and what distro do you prefer?
Me: Yes, Ubuntu
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Eggy Lippmann
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01-04-2006 09:54
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Adam Zaius
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01-04-2006 09:57
Slackware
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Karsten Rutledge
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01-04-2006 10:07
I've been running it under Linux since I came to Second Life in Feb '05. I'll be delighted to switch to an official client, though.
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Jackal Ennui
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01-04-2006 10:14
No, because I currently don't have a *nix machine powerful enough to run such graphics & cpu intensive apps, but it would be a good reason to consider migrating the gaming pc back to a more reasonable OS
 (I don't really play games.. uh.. use virtual worlds... other than SL, atm)If I do migrate to the Linux client, it will be under FreeBSD with Linux binary compatibility mode. _____________________
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Karsten Rutledge
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01-04-2006 10:39
I'm curious as to what the performance difference will be between WINE and an official client. I'm hoping it's done right and lets us actually benefit from cutting out a layer, and doesn't just have the layer embedded into it like some other Linux 'ports' I've seen. (How's 6 feet under working out for you, Corel?)
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Ravenous Dingo
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01-04-2006 15:50
no. well maybe. that iz, i already have a windows license that i use 4 gaming. but i might load it on one of my linux boxes 4 fun. maybe.
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Burke Prefect
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01-04-2006 15:56
I'd probably be able to dump Windows entirely for my personal machine.
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Eggy Lippmann
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01-04-2006 16:30
Slackware I used to use Slackware, you know... I went Slackware 4.0 -> RedHat 5,6,7 -> Mandrake 7,8,9,10 -> Ubuntu 5.04/5.10 I guess as I get older I lose the patience for tweaking random crap and want something that "just works". One day I'll stop hating apple and get myself a mac or something  Ahh, the good old days of twm. I was only 17 and barely knew anything about linux... I just knew how to log in, check my mail with pine, edit text with joe and pico, startx and pop netscape open... oh yeah, also telnet for MUDding and the glorious command-line ftp thing  _____________________
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Siggy Romulus
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01-04-2006 16:36
Went from slackware to redhat (I think till around 5.1) then to Mandrake - I used to use Linux for everything apart from freelance editing and eventually SL.
I would love to migrate back to Linux now that I've all but stopped freelance edting... I would also like to don huge harem pants and dance and sing... My my my - oh lord! A linux client, BLESS MY SOUL! Thank you so much for rescuing me From this bad OS on a shitty CD I know I'm taking a marginal risk When I wipe out windows... ...using Fdisk... (bah bum bum bahmp -- bah bahmp --- bah bahmp) Using Fdisk... (cant take full credit for that - based loosely on the MC Hammer Parody that appeared in 'User Friendly' ) _____________________
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Mag Caldera
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01-04-2006 17:24
The answer to this is easy for me...an although I have not posted much, second life is the ONE app that keeps me glued to windows.
Linden is not wealthy enough to try to develope a client for Linux in general. Let's be honest with ourselves, The difference between mandriva, fedora, slackware, ubuntu, debian, xandros, & (add distro here) is night and day. There is no way to effectively develope a client for all flavors. Throw in the BSD's and you are lost forever. Linden needs to pick a single distro and open communications with them. Corel did this with their products in the late 90's with quite a bit of success, but then tried to provide support across the board with complete failure. Linden needs to come to an agreement that developements in the distro not destroy the work they have put into making the client work, yet at the same time keep that work using the most open standards possible with a closed client. Developing this for Linux I expect is harder than most think. We all have our opinions as to which dist is superior, yet I would rather switch flavors of Linux than be forced to upgrade to MS's latest bloatware simply because I cant bring myself to leave this place. |
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Siggy Romulus
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01-04-2006 17:47
I'm hoping your last name isn't your choice in linux flavors though
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Adam Zaius
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01-04-2006 17:50
The answer to this is easy for me...an although I have not posted much, second life is the ONE app that keeps me glued to windows. Linden is not wealthy enough to try to develope a client for Linux in general. Let's be honest with ourselves, The difference between mandriva, fedora, slackware, ubuntu, debian, xandros, & (add distro here) is night and day. There is no way to effectively develope a client for all flavors. Throw in the BSD's and you are lost forever. Linden needs to pick a single distro and open communications with them. Corel did this with their products in the late 90's with quite a bit of success, but then tried to provide support across the board with complete failure. Linden needs to come to an agreement that developements in the distro not destroy the work they have put into making the client work, yet at the same time keep that work using the most open standards possible with a closed client. Developing this for Linux I expect is harder than most think. We all have our opinions as to which dist is superior, yet I would rather switch flavors of Linux than be forced to upgrade to MS's latest bloatware simply because I cant bring myself to leave this place. I've never had too many problems with doing cross-distro application development. Most things are 100% binary compatible (unless your using obscure libraries or library versions.), and it's not too hard to do a custom compile for the 1 or 2 distro's that dont play nice. Plus, things like GTK & Qt encompass a huge subset of functionality that's guarunteed on every distro. (Qt in particular there - everything from OpenGL to Threading has an encapsulated version in Qt that's cross-platform compatible.) -Adam _____________________
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Jsecure Hanks
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01-04-2006 18:14
YES
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Khamon Fate
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01-04-2006 18:24
Slackware for me. We use Ubuntu at work because Jarod just jackin' insists.
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LordJason Kiesler
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01-05-2006 00:41
Add 3 yes's here.
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Zonax Delorean
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01-05-2006 02:16
Ubuntu.
I probably will still keep the dual-boot (to Windows XP), but only for some games, rarely. I hope to be around 90-100% time-wise in Linux at home when the SL Linux client comes out. |
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Gus Plisskin
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01-05-2006 02:47
I'll use Ubuntu. I keep Mandriva and Fedora Core on lower performance machines for diagnosing customer issues.
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Alan Kiesler
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01-05-2006 03:38
Probably, yes. But does Solaris 10 x86 count? (Don't think that I'm kidding either, I may just try it - Sun has packages to allow that now.)
Anyway, the truly serious version would be for Fedora Core 4. Mostly because of my notebooks and their compatability with it. Unfortunately, that won't get me 100% out of Windows - due to other things I need running (specific things for work mostly). _____________________
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Eggy Lippmann
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01-05-2006 04:08
YES Scientific Linux So basically you want to run SL... on SL! _____________________
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Eggy Lippmann
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01-05-2006 04:10
The answer to this is easy for me...an although I have not posted much, second life is the ONE app that keeps me glued to windows. Linden is not wealthy enough to try to develope a client for Linux in general. Let's be honest with ourselves, The difference between mandriva, fedora, slackware, ubuntu, debian, xandros, & (add distro here) is night and day. There is no way to effectively develope a client for all flavors. Throw in the BSD's and you are lost forever. BSD != Linux Are you forgetting that the Linux client already exists... and works? It was publicly demonstrated at a conference. _____________________
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Alondria LeFay
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01-05-2006 05:53
Slackware here and very much looking forward to axing my Windows partition.
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Hank Hoodoo
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01-05-2006 06:22
My desktop is a Mac, which I'm not going to replace (although this saddens me, I do need to be able to run MS Office on something, and OpenOffice is not an adequate replacement). BUT I do need a laptop, and I will seriously consider making it Debian and saving myself the cost of a Powerbook if this whole SL Linux Client thing pans out.
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Silwenae Liberty
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01-05-2006 07:10
Ubuntu for me!
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Issarlk Chatnoir
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01-05-2006 07:13
Yes. Debian.
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Freeman Wake
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01-05-2006 11:41
Without a doubt. Gentoo.
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