tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-219960882007-12-05T21:38:16.203ZA Second Life on Linuxninjafoo Nghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11891276292472040351noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21996088.post-1155118733313655832006-08-09T11:17:00.000+01:002006-08-09T14:12:33.656+01:00

I had two adjacent parcels of land for sale. a 1024 and a 512. the 512 was getting no interest so I decided to merge the two plots together. I went into edit land, selected both plots and joined them. Suddenly ppl started rezzing on the land, I realised something must be wrong with the land price and quick as I could poped up the land dialog and tried to take the new merged plot off the

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Zi Ree has created a Qt3 port of Avimator (currently using FLTK - ewww!). Full details of the port (and instructions for downloading and compiling) can be found on the Avimator forum, or if you're feeling brave you can just go straight for the Source / Homepage.

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After a recent period of downtime, the Avimator website is back online, not much info there for now, but it looks hopeful, fingers crossed we get a new version with some bug fixes soon! Avimator is avatar animation software for Secondlife, allowing the creation of poses and keyframed character animations and saves you buying Poser :)

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The next meeting of the SL LUG will take place on Wednesday 21st June, 12pm SLT (8pm BST, 9pm CET) at Maryport (182,150) (Find -> Events -> check upcoming -> search for 'Linux'). SL Hacks & Scripts Topic for discussion is 'SL Hacks & Scripts', so, try out some of the scripts the community has come up with and share your experiences at the next meeting. Some good scripts to start you off include

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The next meeting of the SL LUG will take place on Wednesday 14th June, 12pm SLT (8pm BST, 9pm CET) at Maryport (182,150) (Find -> Events -> check upcoming -> search for 'Linux'). Nothing planned for this week, just a chance to chew the fat, catch up with any new issues affecting Linux users. Maybe do a little show and tell if anyone is willing :) Discuss the upcoming meeting, or anything

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An update for Wine has come through, essential for those times the Linux SL client isn't up to the job. It's still as crashy as ever for me, but is worth getting as it finally fixes the alpha transparency issues! The appearance editor will no longer eat your favourite outfits!

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Another Wednesday, another update - Only this time its solid gold!! Latest SL client is rock solid stable, good framerates, all the usual bugs remain but at least we can get back to running native. Grab it from the usual place.

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Jim Bunderfeld has sorted us out with our very own IRC channel - #secondlifelinux on irc.EnterTheGame.com

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The next meeting of the SL LUG will take place on Wednesday 7th June, 12pm SLT (8pm BST, 9pm CET) at Maryport (182,150) (Find -> Events -> check upcoming -> search for 'Linux'). I will update this post with details of the second later SL LUG meeting once I have spoken to Drake Bacon. Meeting Karen Linden Karen Linden (Dev. Program Manager) will be coming to the 12:00 Meeting to have a chat

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Well, another Wednesday came, and at the 11th hour an updated Linux client was released. Initial reports have been patchy, it seems more stable than 1.10.0.32 but still crashes hard with the same errors. At least we seem to be getting a little Linden involvement now - SL Forum : 1.10.1 Released!.

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The SL LUG meeting scheduled for the 27th of May has been moved back to the 31st of May. This reflects a permanent move to a new Wednesday meeting slot that we hope more users will be able to attend. Saturdays do have a habit of clashing with RL :) The meeting will be at the same place and time, just on a Wednesday - 12pm SLT (8pm GMT, 9pm CET) at Maryport (182,150) (Find -> Events -> check

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Well update Wednesday came, with no word from anybody regarding the status of the Linux client for quite some time, we all got a bit nervy. Especially when someone claimed to know for certain that there would be no Linux client for the short term. Panic!! (SL Forum : Current Development?, Linux Alpha gone?). Imagine our relief and excitement when a download link for a new Linux client appeared

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The next meeting of the SL LUG will take place on Saturday 27th May, 12pm SLT (8pm GMT, 9pm CET) at Maryport (182,150) (Find -> Events -> check upcoming -> search for 'Linux'). Bring a bottle... well, after the update to 1.9.10 was dropped at the last minute (No New Newness) it looks like this Wednesday will see a roll out of the new client. A new Linux client might be on the table, it might

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Someone said on the SL forums that LSL is great, until you try to do just about anything with it. They weren't kidding. To a dedicated OOP fanatic like myself, working with LSL feels like one hack after another. A project of any size rapidly feels like a huge collection of workarounds. I can only hope that things will improve when Mono is finally implemented. It's little wonder scripters are

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The next meeting of the SL LUG will take place on Saturday 20th May, 12pm SLT (8pm GMT, 9pm CET) at Maryport (182,150) (Find -> Events -> check upcoming -> search for 'Linux'). Lets Get Logo! Its high time the SL LUG had a well designed logo. So if you have any ideas, design skills and are prepared to commit a little time (please bring examples of previous work), or just want to have your say

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I have decided that its time I started to write up my experiences in Second Life, if for no other reason than to keep a record of my journey and help keep things clear in my own mind. I have never kept a journal before, so I apologise now for all the rubbish parts. So much has happened in the short time Second Life has been a part of my life, It's made me question some of the very foundations of

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For reasons unknown, the Second Life 1.9.1 release has been postponed (All platforms - SL Forum : 1.9.1 release postponed). From the forum chatter it seems some of the new features simply weren't ready for release. With the latest preview offing less than previous versions (SL Forum : And boom. Vertex shaders and shadows are gone.) combined with reports of rendering weirdness (SL Forum :

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The next meeting of the SL LUG will take place on Saturday 13th May, 12pm SLT (8pm GMT, 9pm CET) at Maryport (182,150). As usual you can find the location using the find (Events -> check upcoming -> search for 'Linux') New Newness! Nothing planned for this meeting other than to discuss the wonderful new client, the new features and how the Linux port faired. Second Life 1.9.1 is due to be

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The next meeting of the SL LUG will take place on Saturday 6th May, 12pm SLT (8pm GMT, 9pm CET) at Maryport (182,150). As usual you can find the location using the find (Events -> check upcoming -> search for 'Linux') Up for discussion will be ideas for the long term funding of the LUG, all ideas and suggestions welcome! 3 Prim Building Event Going to try something a little different this week

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The next meeting of the SL LUG will take place on Saturday 29th April, 12pm SLT (8pm GMT, 9 pm CET) at Maryport (182,150). As usual you can find the location using the find (Events -> check upcoming -> search for 'Linux') The redesigned meeting place with better seating and a stage for presentations went down very well, it still needs some tweaks (and perhaps some more / different seating

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The next meeting of the SL LUG will take place in a few short days time as we get back to our usual Saturday meeting slot (12AM SLT at Maryport (182,150) In world : Find -> Events -> check upcoming -> search for 'Linux') This week we hope to have a talk on GPG by Dale, will update this post with details as I get them. This weeks competition is for the 'Best Dress' - yes, that means exactly

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The upcoming SL LUG meeting has been moved from its usual Saturday spot to Tuesday 18th of April at the slightly later time of 3PM SLT (11PM BST) due to Easter weekend. We decided at the last meeting to extend the deadline for the T-Shirt competition, as it turns out most don't read the SL Linux Forum! Anyway, this gives you a few extra days to work on your entries, you can read the rules on

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An optional update to the client has been released for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Many thanks to Karen Linden for letting us has the Linux client as soon as it was ready :) Karen Linden: I can just post it now....but no one has really tried it much yet, except for installing. Have fun! As usual this update fixes a number of cross platform issues (SL Forum : Second Life 1.9.0(21) Release Notes).

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The Second Life Community Classified Adverts are now available via the web, you can browse the categories page by page and filter for PG or mature content. All the adverts link through to SLurl. It's a real shame there is no search (the new google powered Second Life site search does not index the classifieds), you cannot see how many pages of classifieds there actually are, and the navigation

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Following on from the last SL LUG meeting. we need a selection of Linux themed T-Shirts to place in the freebie box. Far to many people are wandering around in that fugly gray sweater! So, At the next meeting of the SL LUG we are going to have a little T-Shirt competition. Things like distro logo's, tux's, Linux / geek humor ("My Other T-Shirts Your Windows Box" etc etc). What ever you fancy

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