[Novalug] second life and ibm (and novalug?)

[Palmer]

The Linux client for Second Life has (finally!) been moved to beta.  More
information at http://secondlife.com/corporate/sysreqs.php.

Several companies, including IBM and Sun, use Second Life for
conferencing.  there are also linux user groups within Second Life.

I think it could be interesting to try having a virtual meeting, but
remember - that means no pizza together afterwards ;)

Great idea Doug - I'm all for it.

Cliff

> On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 14:06 -0400, Doug Toppin wrote:
>> during my eclipse presentation a few weeks ago we started talking
>> about Second Life and someone mentioned that ibm had made a large
>> commitment to it.
>> here's some recent info on this:
>> http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/virtualworlds/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207001420
>>
>> i would be interesting to try some novalug experiments with second
>> life and novalug meetings. if anyone is interested i'm willing to give
>> it a try (but i'm not sure what that involves yet).
>> this seems like another one of those areas that has potential for all
>> sorts of things (i remember saying that at raytheon e-systems about
>> www/mosaic around 1996, too bad i didn't do something about it then).
>>
>> doug
>
> How where do you plan to run the software "client"?
>  <http://www.multiverse.net/consumer/gettingstarted.jsp?cid=1&scid=0>
>  |> Check the minimum system requirements:
>  |>   Operating System: Windows XP or Vista
>
>  This "minimum requirement" is a show stopper as far as I'm concern.
>
>  All of my systems run Ubuntu {or better} and for some unknown reason
> <GRIN> the developers of Multiverse don't seem to think that
> Linux/Ubuntu is a Greater(better) Operating System, like I do.
>
> And in fact even under Windows XP the demo "Multiverse World Browser"
> has to be ran with "Run As Administrator" (ie) you might as well disable
> your anti-virus and security software at the same time.
>
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>   Don E. Groves, Jr.
>
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>
> The assistant replies "Have you tried Windows XP?"
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