* kernel-2.6.15-1.1909_FC5 (which is really 2.6.16rc2-git1 + rh patches)
* glibc-2.3.90-36 (a pre-2.4 CVS snapshot)
* libstdc++-4.1.0-0.20 (as /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.7) and compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-54.fc5 (as /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.7), the latter being what the SL client seems to want to use
* nvidia driver 8178
* X.org 7.0.0
Currently running with SELinux in enforcing mode, supposedly using the Reference policy now though I haven't verified that.
HW: Athlon XP 1700+ (1466MHz), 768 MB PC2100, 256 MB AGP GF6600
Ok. Unpacked the tarball, tried to run. Got lots of every SELinux user's favorite error, such as
bin/secondlife-bin: error while loading shared libraries: lib/libfreetype.so.6: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied
Which necessitated a "sudo chcon -t textrel_shlib_t lib/*" to fix. Not sure what the canonical way to handle that kind of stuff when distributing across multiple selinux-enabled distros (which may use different policies) is...
Anyway, that out of the way, tried the client again, got the glibc malloc error, so had to use the MALLOC_CHECK_=0 thing.
Then the client ran. Everything I noticed in the client has been reported by someone else I think. I do find it interesting that it seems the same things that don't work with the win32 client under Wine (for example I can't adjust the length of my sleeves) still don't work under the linux alpha.
Even after pasting the appropriate setting into my settings.ini, couldn't get rippled water. It works with win32/wine. Also pasting the AGP setting wouldn't make the box check.
Memory usage seems noticeably lower than win32/wine. Framerate did seem higher.
Altogether, for a an alpha client running on my alpha/betaish distro, amazingly good first showing
~Orenj~