First Technical Look at the Second Life Client

An anonymous reader writes "Second Life is a virtual world, maintained through a combination of client software and hosting servers. It has the unusual quality that nearly all of the content is user-provided. It is also unusual in that Linden Labs recently announced the release of its client software as open source. This is something that is rarely, if ever, done in commercial MMO apps. This article introduces the client (or "viewer" in Linden terminology) and explores the Second Life development environment."

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[brkello]

Second life is just a game of ads at this point. People are just jumping on to get their name out there and then paying off people to write articles about it. Please, can we collectively decide not to participate in this ad fest and just not have articles related to second life anymore? Seriously, I wish there was some way to easily count how many Second Life articles there are in relation to other games. Compare it to the number of WoW articles and that difference would have to be staggering. I'd understand seeing a lot of WoW articles...because so many people play and enjoy that game. But I don't know a single person that plays Second Life. Please, make it stop.