First public demo of Second Life on Linux

Rest assured, when that Linux client is firmly installed on my Ubuntu laptop, I will be upgrading to premium membership.

I will also be pimping SecondLife heaviliy on LUGRadio...

I just finished listening to Cory's interview about the linux client, open standards, and open sourcing the client and server (someday/eventually) on the LugRadio podcast. Really great stuff. Check it out.

http://www.lugradio.org/

Latest show
I'm an excellent driver
16th January 2006: Season 3 Episode 7 : 89:17
Show summary: Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Ade Bradshaw, and Matthew Revell talk about Linux and whatever else comes along, including:

* How can we get artists and designers involved in open source? (1.25)
* The team talk to Cory Ondrejka of Linden Labs about Second Life... (16.35)
* ...and then talk amongst themselves about it (41.00)
* Belief in open source: is there enough faith that free software can really produce the right stuff? (46.30)
* Your emails! (68.23)

With video cards, it's actually a bit worse
From what I remember, reading in an article, ATI's drivers are somewhat faster under Windows than Linux, and yes, it's a noticable difference. With NVIDIA, things are better, though most of the tests the Windows driver won by a bit, but in some others, the Linux driver was faster.

Anyone might have URLs to those articles (I forgot where I read them).

Frans, pasting a browser-rendered image onto a waving textured object is a pretty standard way to demo/test OpenGL rendering of something. Like, I've seen movies being played back onto waving flags before etc ... example code for making such a flag is easy to find and apart from looking nice it demonstrates conclusively to the audience that what you're seeing is 3D.

Whether you'll be able to do that sort of thing in-world is anybodies guess. To start with, probably not .... they need a GL capable Gecko because everything that Second Life draws has to go via GL ... but perhaps later you'll be able to put HTML on one of the new flexible prims they demonstrated.

Thanks Mack. I now have a big grin on my face thinking about the hamster dance website on a browser enabled waggling tail.