[sldev] Lighter weight client?

[Lawson English]

Mike Monkowski wrote:
> Edward Cherlin wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Mike Monkowski 
>> <monkowsk at watson.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Edward Cherlin wrote:
>>> > The XO has a 433 MHz AMD Geode LX processor, and no 3D acceleration
>>> > hardware. Memory is 256 MB, and there is 1 GB of NAND flash.
>>>
>>> Graphics card?
>>
>> No.
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware
>
> Because the onboard graphics processor is called a 2D graphics engine, 
> I would be surprised if you could get an OpenGL driver for it, and 
> without OpenGL, SecondLife graphics are not possible, and without 
> graphics, SecondLife is not very compelling.  You might try one of the 
> Flash based virtual worlds, but I don't know if any of them run on Linux.
>
> Mike
>
Squeak is already bundled. I assume that some version of Croquet is, also.

You COULD base a non-3D SL client off of Squeak pretty easily, though to 
do that, you'd have to know the protocols perfectly.

<hint, hint>



Lawson