Today, Linden Lab released two core pieces of server side code as open source items. These are Eventlet and Mulib, respectively. No, these two (rather poorly documented) libraries won't have you running out and flinging simulators together by tea-time, but they do represent two critical items of communications code that are essential to the new web-services/REST-based backbone model that Second Life will scale from in future.
Both modules are written in modern python (which should come as no surprise) and are available as zip files, or via the subversion repository. The Second Life wiki has been updated with what little information is available for Eventlet and Mulib.
1. Yeah, noticed these... but by themselves, their use is dubious.
Posted at 1:32AM on Aug 25th 2007 by Nobody Fugazi