Second Life and Virtual Worlds
The Linden made series of viewers
The fate of the Second Life Linux version viewer is now up to the Linux community of Second Life. In the Third Party Devlopers’ meeting Oz Linden spoke about the Lab’s Linux support for the near term future. Basically the Lab is going to provide less Linux support.
There are two reasons; one is the Lab’s limited resources and second the new projects they will be starting in the next months or so, which I take to mean late May or early June.
Oz Linden in the Third Party Developers’ meeting mentioned that the Tools Update Viewer made it to main viewer status. That means the Lab is now fully committed to building viewers with VS2013.
Since the Tools viewer got promoted the main viewer is less crashy then previous versions 2% less. That is a significant improvement. While 2% may sound like a small number, it is a significant improvement.
I was surprised to see the RC Tools Update Viewer version 3.7.28.300918 promote to the main viewer. This is two updates in one week…
That leaves two RC viewers on the list this morning.
RC Layer Limits Viewer version 3.7.28.301019 updated this afternoon, after I published my viewer updates. :/
My viewer attempted to update to this version. I had an in viewer notice that a new version had downloaded. I clicked to have it go ahead and install. That was a mistake. It could not install and I started getting a series of install problems. I finally canceled out of the install and restarted the viewer.
On restart I got a notice that a problem with the update had occurred and was given a link and instructions to download the viewer and install the download. The manual download and install worked without a problem. The viewer launched and logged in without a problem.
The Main Viewer has updated to 3.7.27.300636. This version was the RC Maintenance release with a load of fixes (Release Notes). This viewer first appeared as an RC Viewer 3/18. I found it to be a good improvement over the previous main viewer, 3.7.26.299635. Some of the improvements are targeted at performance.
If you use a translator in Second Life, you know recent changes at Google have caused several models of translators to fail. You also know that since 2012 the viewer’s built-in translator cannot be connected to the Bing or Google translation services as originally planned by the Lab. Viewer translation is essentially broken. We have to use an add-on.
Following this blog you’ve seen the recent previous articles. (See: Second Life: Metanomics Translator Failing.)