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[News] Second Life and Linux

Second Life and Open Source

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| Each "sim" or simulator of a portion of the virtual world in Second
| Life is created on a server running Debian GNU/Linux, Apache, Squid
| and MySQL; currently there are several thousand of these PC boxes.
| To allow for fast response times, the virtual world is sent not as
| pixels or even as a mesh, but as a series of 3D primitives -
| "prims". The Second Life client creates the world by converting
| the stream of information about prims and their position into
| a visual representation.
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http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/214426/f26072fc04884906/

Second life has a Linux client.


Related:

Why We Need an Open Source Second Life

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| Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life, is very open-source friendly.
| Its computing infrastructure is based on thousands of servers running
| GNU/Linux, Apache, Squid and MySQL.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000133


'Second Life' hits second million in eight weeks

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| It took the virtual world Second Life more than three years to
| finally hit one million registered accounts.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10797_3-6143909.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news


World only needs seven computers

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| IBM founder Thomas J. Watson couldn't add up: it was seven
| computers the world would need, not five. That's the contrarian
| view of Sun chief technology officer Greg Papadopoulos. He thinks
| there will just seven hyperscale, pan-global broadband computing
| services giants.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=7529 


Sensory immersion

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| Second Life of course brings a new twist to the idea of immersion,
| though for now it?s immersion on the virtual side of the looking
| glass. What interests me are the ways in which there is cross-over
| between the virtual world and the real world.
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http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/72


FSF pledges $60,000 to the Free Ryzom Campaign

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| Free Software Foundation announces that it
| will officially support the Free Ryzom campaign (www.ryzom.org)with a
| pledge of $60,000.
| 
| The Free Ryzom campaign was established to purchase the online game and
| universe known as Ryzom, property of the now bankrupt Nevrax company,
| and release the entire game as free software.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/213947/


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