SecondLife promotes the Linux viewer to Beta status
Posted by Nanci Barthelmess on 5 March 2008
Ever since SecondLife started having a Linux version it’s been listed as alpha, although many of us felt shorted by that label. But that’s changed (a little) as SecondLife has released a beta version of the Linux viewer software.
The bottom line is that the Linux client is now “feature complete” as compared to the viewers for Windows and OSX. As Johan Linden wrote on the SL blog,
Now Linux users can enjoy the same capabilities as Windows and Mac users to explore, create and socialize!
Linux users have actually had Voice for the last few Release Candidate releases, and video has been pretty m much fixed since before the last round of RC releases. The good news is that you can now get the Linux SecondLife viewer from the main downloads page rather than from a special alpha releases page.
6 March 2008 at 5:52 pm
Yesssss
7 March 2008 at 3:14 pm
Hi - nice blog here!
Can’t get SL voice to run under Ubuntu Gutsy, as soon as I start SL the sound contains some strange clicking and although since the last releases people can her me and I see waves over my head, I can’t hear anyone speaking, but I hear the environment noise etc. but always with that clicking in it.
any other audio playing is ok, so is Skype’s audio and video.
I am quite new to Ubuntu, so I don’t know where to start - the Ubuntu forums do not list my problem….
.. but I *did* switch from XP, and have only one app that I run under virtualbox ( my accounting).
Please feel free to contact Cedric Sperber in SL if you have a solution ( I want to stop running SL under XP just for voice)
Thanks
Cedric
7 March 2008 at 5:27 pm
This really isn’t a good resource for support for SL, I just mention when new versions of note come out. If you’re a paid member of SL you can use their forums, and you can also do a search in the Ubuntu Forums for SecondLife. If there isn’t an exact match for your issue you can at least find a good section for asking your question in a new topic.