One fellow there is very interested in SecondLife and in running the OpenSim server. We started looking around the OpenSim site and found the build instructions for Ubuntu 8.04/8.10. I already had some of the packages so I installed what I was missing. Then grabbed the source package from OpenSim. I used the latest stable release not the SVN version.
It took 291 minutes to build OpenSim on this machine. Oh, what's the machine you ask. It's a Toshiba Satellite 1415-S173, new in January 2003, 1.8 Ghz Celeron, 386 M ram with 16 being used for the on board nVidia GeForce4 420 Go running the Jaunty Jackalope release of Ubuntu.
By this time the meeting was breaking up so I went home to continue playing. Besides the SecondLife viewer won't run on this machine.
Once home I continued following the directions on the OpenSim wiki. I copied the example OpenSim.ini.example to OpenSim.ini, read over it, looks okay. Okay here goes...starts up fine and I go through some config steps and I'm off running my own OpenSim server. Very plain jane mind you but running none the less.
More in a bit...this thing put the image way up top when I wanted it here.
Time to wander back to the bat cave (the computer room). I fired up the current stable release of the Second Life viewer for Linux on spinach (my desktop machine also running Jaunty). I used the suggested command lines from the OpenSim wiki. It stumbled, or maybe I stumbled a few times getting logged in but once in I discovered the character I had created, Norman Bates, had a female body. This is the only screenshot I have of the client on spinach. He's a bit unstable at the moment.
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