1. I wonder how easy it is to set up a private island for personal building and testing use though. I havn't checked the page yet but it's been my experience that as neat as these sorts of things are they are rediculously difficult to get running.

Posted at 9:58AM on Feb 2nd 2007 by Ramen Junkie

2. How will there be an open seondlife if we have to resort to Linden lab to store all our data??

Posted at 12:55PM on Feb 2nd 2007 by Loki Eliot

3. For the record, I installed the .Net 2.0 framework on my WinXP box and was able to follow the bare basic instructions to get into the OpenSim. I was actually pretty surprised it was that easy. Of course, limited functionality et al, but being a *nix person, I expected a whole lot more tweaking just to get some results. Jolly good progress!

Posted at 1:59AM on Feb 3rd 2007 by Pym Sartre

4. Included is a built server app, Logging into it is a sinch, Getting the source to build is a teeny bit more fiddly. Its real sparse functionality is apparent as soon as you try to actually do anything, but soo cool nevertheless and a good starting point for me to learn all about it :)

Loki : Why do you have to rely on LL to store your data ?

LSL scripting can get all the information needed to rebuild linkset objects along with lists of the contents and UUIDS for any anims/sounds/textures. Much of your inventory are already on your HD if you uploaded them in the first place. Copy all your scripts into googledocs or notepad or something for a off world copy. Its not ideal but its better than the tools which grab data from the stream and ignore the perms system, in order to backup your objects, no?

Posted at 10:07AM on Feb 13th 2007 by Goa Primeau