did he? or … mmmm just assumed?

How amusing, at the mention of Sun, to see every one instantly ranting over Solaris and Sun Hardware, argueing over what operating system the viewer will run on, which hardware the servers will run on, which operating system and hardware is best, and all the while, failing to see what the true LindenLabSun interest is ! How typical, to see this place degenerate into tangents of “i know more than you”, all the while totally avoiding the topic of interest !

*** PROJECT DARKSTAR *** is what i think you are all failing to grasp or show having any knowledge of here, http://research.sun.com/spotlight/2006/2006-03-20_Darkstar.html

This is what LindenLab are interested in, and what Sun are interested in touting to LindenLab, the whole Sun interest is nothing what so ever to do with weather the SL Viewer will run on a Solaris box or not, or weather LindenLab will use Sun server appliances !

It’s Sun’s gaming framework targeted at MMORPGs, a decent version of what LindenLab have been trying to do for the last how ever many years. Designed and written by decent developers who have a clue, rather than 1/2 ass 2 bit amateurs like LindenLab.

TrannyPet Barmy

ps. not sure who was going on about using Opteron based machines instead of a Sun systems, but, what exactly do you think Sun are putting in their machines now ???

http://research.sun.com/projects/mc/mpk20.html

Good luck with that statement, cause you’re still an idiot.

Friends of mine ran a website and several active forums on an old Sparcstation 20 for 3 continuous years without a reboot, crash, or fault. Reliable hardware and a solid OS were Sun hallmarks at one time — you can still repair old Sun gear and run it without a problem for ages. Can’t say firsthand if the new crop is as good as the old, but I’d trust a Sun and Solaris a thousand times before I’d trust Microsoft Server. The fact that few people write viruses targeting Solaris is an added plus.

I read with more than a little interest the Second Life Herald article about Sun Microsystems efforts in Second Life.  Going deeper into the interview with avi Guy Trenchard, however, I saw this:
Guy Trenchard: well for a long time SL has been …

Wow. Prok complaining that someone ELSE writes too much? *BOGGLE*

Simple, the technology isn’t there yet. Let’s wait till we can teleport or cross sims without things ending up in an “uncomfortable place”. And I don’t mean the back seat of a Volkswagen. In all seriousness, there are other platforms that support running in such a way – SL is not (yet) one of them. OpenSim is getting very close however. I wonder if OpenSim runs on Solaris.

Simple, the technology isn’t there yet. Let’s wait till we can teleport or cross sims without things ending up in an “uncomfortable place”. And I don’t mean the back seat of a Volkswagen. In all seriousness, there are other platforms that support running in such a way – SL is not (yet) one of them. OpenSim is getting very close however. I wonder if OpenSim runs on Solaris.

I’m pretty sure LL runs nothing but off the shelf AMD Opteron boxes and a few new Intel servers with Debian Linux at the moment.