While Windows offer great performance and stability and the basic memory consumption does not really count above 20 regions anymore - there are 2 big advantages running opensim on Linux: non-existent license costs and easy and efficient automation.
Using the ’screen’ command and other Linux standard command line tools you can easily automate many Opensim maintenance [...]
Opensim users were surprised to see their avatars appear as stick-men when they entered their Opensim based virtual worlds at April 1st.
Opensim developers made their annual prank at the first of April. As many of the users have started to use Opensim quite recently, they did not know this beforehand.
See a screenshot and Mo Hax [...]
realXtend project posted a note at their web site:
The two-month period of seemingly quiet research and planning is nearing its end and we have decided on our strategy for the first half of 2009. We will be focusing on creating a new viewer and continuing work on the realXtend modularization effort as well as improving [...]
Today Sakai Openlife of the OpenLife Grid hosted a Q&A Session on 3DX Island. Among the topics were SSOs and of course the coming currency that will be in the next server update and expected to be live this coming Wednesday, March 4th.
Residents should be able to start buying credits on the Thursday following. Here are [...]
Users of the Openlife and popular backup software for Avatar inventory called Second Inventory would be aware of the disabled access to the Openlife with second inventory software whilst improvements to security and stability are made.
Second Inventory developers are working together with the 3DX team to make improvements to the methods and capabilities of second [...]
Early this week three vandals entered UCI Opensim grid (ucigrid04.nacs.uci.edu:9003) and completely trashed the place. What they did not consider was that they left the server logs full of virtual fingerprints.
“The place was completely unprotected, on purpose, as an on-going experiment about these trust issues”, said Crista Lopes (aka Diva Canto), Professor at UCI, ”Those 3 people happened to take [...]
In metaverse, there are a lot of beliefs about the intellectual property of a content creator (IP). Most users of the commercial systems do not read the terms of service (ToS) of their provider and are in the misleading opinion that their creations are owned by them. Because of that, we must first cover the [...]
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