My experience on Ubuntu 7.04

Well it all works fine!

Just installed 6.10, then upgrade to 7.04 - didnt do anything else. No extra packages etc etc. Then just downloaded, logged in, pushed all the graphics up as far as they will go and getting 60FPS. Would really like the advanced gfx avaible

My PC specs are -
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3.0Ghz P4 HT
2GB RAM
Geforce7800GS 256MB AGP (Ubuntu has support from nVidia on their gfx and these drivers were instead not just default ones and placed in the restriced driver database)

And what's better - im also running offa a wireless network

Just thought i should all let you know

Running 7.04 here as well no problems, ran SL "out of the box"

P4 3.6ghz HT
2GB RAM
Geforce 6800 GO ultra 256mb PCIE

Also using the restricted drivers included in the distrib

Edit the starting script (usually ~/SecondLife_i686_1_15_0_2/secondlife), and comment the line:

#export LL_GL_BASICEXT=x

Just add an hash mark in front of the export, using your preferred plain text editor. You will get ingame preferences for some more features, probably at expense of stability.

...And post the results!

I'm on Ubuntu Edgy->Feisty too and it works quite well - worst after last release, as everybody. I'm using both the official binary and the sources built by myself.

My system: http://signore.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/my-system-specs
Step-by-step source building with errors and some solutions: http://signore.wordpress.com/tag/linux/

Ubuntu and Debian users may want to use these too:
SecondLife Linux Alpha and Firstlook clients, packaged for Ubuntu
http://au.ubuntu.cafuego.net/dists/edgy-cafuego/secondlife
(feedback about trustworthiness of this repository would be appreciated)

Similar results ... Ubuntu 7.04 (32-bit)

AMD Athlon 3+GHz
2MB Ram
NVIDIA binary drivers

Install was just unzip the TAR into a /usr/bin directory and click
No problems loading or logging on
Inventory was there

BUGS:
Not all landmarks showed up
Mouselook doesn't shift focus

and then it locked up with a BSOD (Black Screen of Death)

Now I get to learn how to kill a process

I used Debian about 9 years ago for three months then a new IBM laptop I used for work came with MS-Windows and I never got back to using it. Tried a couple of times but gave up. About six weeks ago I installed Debian just before the etch release on my Dell 5150 Inspirion and after an hour of learning wireless I was up and going. Then Installed SL and after reinstalling the Nvidia drivers its been rocking ever since.
Life is good.

BSOD on linux? That was your screensaver


in a terminal:

ps -ef | grep secondlife

so you can learn the PID (Process ID) of the secondlife processes; then,

kill -9 PID-of-the-secondlife-process

I think you need to kill the secondlife process only, not the do-not-directly-run-secondlife one too.
Like other people that often crash, I put this in a script, and I have a button in my toolbar that runs that script, so when SL makes my system hard usable at all, killing it is easier.