Linden Lab Official

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Yay! We have an official announcement from the Lab. See: Ebbe Altberg Joins Linden Lab as CEO. Quote: SAN FRANCISCO — February 5, 2014 — Linden Lab®, the makers of Second Life®, BlocksworldTM, DesuraTM, and more, today announced that Ebbe Altberg will lead the company as its new Chief Executive Officer. Most recently prior to joining Linden Lab, Altberg … Read more

New Second Life CEO

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The About Linden Lab page now lists Ebbe Altberg as the CEO. He has a profile on LinkedIn. Over on SLUniverse Ashur Constantine posted: New Linden Lab CEO, Ebbe Altberg. Quoating: Ebbe Altberg comes to Linden Lab with more than 25 years of experience leading teams and creating software used by hundreds of millions of … Read more

Second Life CEO

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The Linden page showing corporate managers now has Ebbe Altberg listed as CEO. There is no way to know if this is a perminant replacement or an interim replacement. Linden Management Thanks to: Ashur Constantine 🙂

Second Life News 2014-6

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Servers

Late yesterday, after 7PM PST, the Deploys post appeared. We did get a server update roll to the main channel today (2/4). Tomorrow, Wednesday, we will get a roll to the RC channels. There’s nothing earthshaking in either of the releases.

Server-Scripting UG 2014-5
Server-Scripting UG 2014-5

The package that made it to the main channel is the one that includes the Linden Scripting Language (LSL) function: llModifyLand(). Inara has more on this change. See: SL projects news 6/1: Server, viewer, SSA and AIS project viewer.

The package going to the RC channels is a package with a crash fix. The package is going to all three channels. And that’s about all we know about. 

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Bits and Pieces of Second Life 2014-6

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Materials – Prim Perfect has an article up on the surprise they experienced  when moving to a new viewer that was Materials capable. In their words: “The difference is stunning.”

If you aren’t running with the Advanced Lighting Model (ALM) enabled, you are missing out.

Exploring Banana Island - 2014
Exploring Banana Island – 2014

In the Firestorm viewers only the BETA version has Materials capability, for now. If you are a Firestorm user you may want to check out the Beta. If you are leery of Beta versions, you may want to try the main release SL Viewer. 

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