Video from January meeting ?

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

On 1/23/07, Mark J. Dulcey <mark at buttery.org> wrote:

> > On 1/21/07, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I tried Second Life once, on my Mac Mini, and navigation was
> >> painfully slow. I just tried to connect a second time, and now
> >> the application won't even launch.
>
> The Mac Mini is underpowered for Second Life.
>
> You need a computer with a fast CPU, at least 1GB of RAM, and a good 3D
> accelerator from NVidia or ATI to run Second Life well. The original
> Mini is a bit light in the CPU department, has a slow 3D chip, and most
> of them don't have enough RAM. The new Intel-based Mini has Intel
> integrated graphics, which spoils what would otherwise be a very nice
> computer for Second Life.

My Mac Mini has an Intel Dual Core CPU. Only 512M of RAM, though.
I've been meaning to upgrade it to 2GB. Maybe that would help.
I did get Second Life working again, by deleting the client and
downloading it again.



> There is a Linux client for Second Life; it's officially an alpha, but
> it mostly works well. (You can't watch video on it, though, because
> there is no QuickTime for Linux.) The official builds are x86 only, so
> you can't run them on a PowerPC-based Mac. Linden Lab recently released
> the client under the GPL, so we might see versions of the Linux client
> for other architectures in the future.

I also tried the Linux client, but it crashes when I launch it; I never
got it to connect at all.


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