A Conversation with Eben Moglen on Second Life
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| Recently I met with Eben Moglen, the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman
| of the Software Freedom Law Center, and David W. Levine, a researcher at
| IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center and IBM representative to the
| Architectural Working Group, for an informal conversation that looked at many
| of the fundamental social, technological and legal questions of building 3D
| immersive online spaces like Second Life.
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http://www.ugotrade.com/2007/12/21/a-conversation-with-eben-moglen-on-second-life/
The second life client is said to be running very well on Linux (fast and
stable). Everything is Free software and the back end is all Linux and Free
software (Debian and MySQL). It's a great success story.
Top 25 Linux 3D Games [with Pictures]
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| Great list with 25 3D games for Linux. Feel free to add more games and help
| another Linux users find those great time wasters you love.
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http://freeonlinefun.blogspot.com/2007/12/top-25-linux-3d-games.html
Recent:
Virtualizing as a Means of Visualizing
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| Ricardo Morla, a post-doctoral fellow who studied with Lopes at UCI last
| year, is working on transferring the Second Life programming language into a
| Linux computer system. That will allow the control software that Lopes
| creates for the virtual SkyTran to be used in a real-world computer to
| control a real-world SkyTran.
|
| Lopes foresees doing further work on the virtual SkyTran system.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60852.html
Related:
A second life for 'Second Life' with open source?
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| One of these projects is the Linux version of the Second Life client, the
| viewer application that runs on the resident's computer and lets the resident
| interact with the graphical environments of the virtual world. Ever since its
| release, the Linux client has remained in constant development by an informal
| team, usually three people. Their work could directly benefit the open source
| and Linux community beyond Second Life, in the aftermath of the hype.
|
| [...]
|
| Linden Lab declined a request for current figures on the number of people
| using the Linux client. Nonetheless, Jason Giglio, a developer and Second
| Life resident who actively works on the client, says he heard through the
| proverbial grapevine that about 5 percent of registered Second Life
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| residents, or about 10,000 people, visit Second Life with the Linux client.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;334841441
Open sourcing Second Life
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| At least open source Second Life elements will be released under
| the BSD license, not the GPL - so people who develop more
| elaborate creations within Second Life won't be obliged to
| re-release the code behind them.
|
| Though there was no evidence that anyone lost any money
| (virtual or otherwise) from the Copybot palaver, the fact that
| a misdirected libsecondlife tool could cause an economic panic
| illustrates the fragility of an economy based on intellectual
| property in a virtual universe.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/21/open_source_second_life/
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/
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
IBM and Linden Lab Launch Collaboration to Further Advance the 3D Internet
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| IBM and Linden Lab®, creator of the virtual world Second Life
| (www.secondlife.com), today announced the intent to develop new technologies
| and methodologies based on open standards that will help advance the future
| of 3D virtual worlds.
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http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/22428.wss
IBM, Linden Lab Aim for Business-Friendly Virtual Worlds
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| IBM and Linden Lab will address the following five areas as part of their
| collaboration.
|
| "Universal" avatars
|
| [...]
|
| Security-rich transactions
|
| [...]
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| Platform stability
|
| [...]
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| Integration with existing Web and business processes
|
| [...]
|
| Open standards for interoperability with the current Web
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20071016/tc_pcworld/138450
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