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Looking Inside the Second Life Data Centers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lookit-all-them-wires-in-there dept.

An anonymous reader writes "InformationWeek looks inside the data centers that power the game Second Life. Tidbits from the article: The software architecture is an extension of the virtual world metaphor of Second Life. At any time, it's possible to walk into one of Second Life's two data centers, pat one of the rack-mounted servers, and say that particular server is running virtual New York, or San Francisco, or ancient Rome, and imagine itty-bitty people and buildings inside the 1U rack-mounted servers. Linden Lab, which develops and maintains Second Life, runs 2,000 Intel- and AMD-based servers in two co-location facilities in San Francisco and Dallas. And, contrary to widespread belief among Second Life users, Linden Lab has not decided whether to open-source the Second Life server software."

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  1. Re:Game? by cowscows · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can create an account and run around the secondlife universe all day for free. You only have to pay if you want to own virtual land within SL.

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  2. Re:Game? by DaleGlass · · Score: 3, Informative

    For me it's mostly like 3D IRC. In the places I visit, advertising is pretty much inexistent.

  3. Re:FOSS details from TFA by Aladrin · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.libsecondlife.org/wiki/Main_Page

    "The libsecondlife and libsecondlife-java projects both provide the additional flexibility of having a BSD license,"

    Your definition of 'not FOSS' is radically different from mine, then. BSD License is just about as open as you get.

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