Preview (1.12.1-r51916) released.

I just checked the Preview grid (boy, is that a mess! Half the regular preview sims aren't up, and the map's lagging because of it). Anyway, release notes from the archive:

Release Notes for Second Life 1.12.1 (linux-51916) September 2, 2006
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Linux client fixes:
* Cut & Paste is not supported
* Cannot Alt Zoom (or Ctrl Drag)
* Stop the client logging to syslog
* Crash when switching from fullscreen mode
* sometimes hang or crash on linux client shutdown
* Key repeating not working correctly
* Lots of 'Failed to set locale en_US.iso8859-1' warnings
* "$L" not appearing before Linden $$ balance in upper right corner of the scree
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* bundled libboost version 1.33.1 causes problems for many users
* libdb-3.2 dependency now bundled

Cut and paste and exit hang fixes verified.

I'm still getting some logging to syslog, but it's not as bad. Here's the full portion of my time in Preview:

Sep  3 11:37:07 localhost secondlife-bin: WARNING: LLDir_Linux not fully implemented!
Sep  3 11:37:07 localhost secondlife-bin: INFO: QUEUED THREAD STARTING
Sep  3 11:37:07 localhost last message repeated 3 times
Sep  3 11:37:26 localhost secondlife-bin: WARNING: LLDir_Linux not fully implemented!

That's much better over all the console log being sent to the syslog.

Worth an article.

Worked great for me. I could not think of any more tests to do. I have sound, I have Cut & Paste, I switched in and out of fullscreen mode, did not hang on exit.

Cut and Paste even puts it in the X Paste buffer, and pulls from it too.

Snapshot did upload a snapshot into my inventory.

Still have "WARNING: Failed to set locale en_US.utf8", but this does not particularly bother me.

Just as a note, the only time the Linux client has crashed on me was during the Octtree (?) thing, so I am thrilled to bits to have all the features I have been missing from the Windows client and can stop rebooting on Wednesday.

Slight problem in 1152x864 fullscreen mode on ATI Radeon 9600SE card, but I really done care. (UI is beyond lower right side of screen.) I have submitted a bug report on that. I am unclear as to whether it is useful for others to check it and see if it happens on other ATI's or NVIDIA's.

This is the ONLY thing that I still miss in the Alpha, really

Nice to have, but as far as I am concerned it can wait until Beta, would be movies...

But with some of our people being builders and clothing designers, I think upload/download of textures would be SO great to have!

I have Hover Tips on all items turned on, but it doesn't seem to work thatr well - I see no tips

Other than that, I am Really Impressed! Fantastic Work, Tofu & LL

The Chat and History windows get restored EXACTLY as I left them when I logged out, too!

woohoo!

are these preview releases public? and if so, where are they located?

Edit: I just found it heh: http://secondlife.com/community/preview.php

I'm getting a download prompt when I try to login 51916, and it exits w/ nothing happening.

I see something about passing --grid on that preview page, but no further info. Tried --grid preview and --grid=preview to no avail? ( the client's help log doesn't mention --grid either )

you have to start it with ./secondlife --siva

thanks!

I sent myself a snapshot by email, and it didn't arrive.

But as far as I can recall, snapshot to email doesn't work on preview anyway So I guess I will have to try it again on Wednesday, when it's up on the main grid.

This build has random texture tiles disappearing/reappearing when you flying around. Anyone else getting that?

ALso i dont know if anyone else but Reset View doesnt seem to work at all in the Linux client..

Sucks having to try to re-position the camera after using them back to normal position..

I usually tap PgDown for a bit, which resets the camera back to the behind-the-bod view.

Looks like patch wednesday has been postponed, so no C&P for another week

/3/e8/135092/1.html

Maybe we can get a backport of this feature and the closing hang fix?

Don did not exclude this possibilty completely - but it's integrated in the buggy preview client; it may be too resource consuming to dig those bits out

It would be FANTASTIC, though!

On the other hand, maybe this gives Tofu a chance to build in things like File Upload / Save to Disk before the next release?

And Ripple Water

And AVP

And the other Cool Graphics Features that are still greyed out

And shiiiiiiiiiiny....

Way to go Tofu! And keep it up! No reason not to keep right on going once the deficiencies are managed and make the native Linux client even better than the Windows one....

It seems our Preview is out of date - I wonder if our new preview client wil have still MORE features?