Re: [BLUG] Open Source Second Life!

There is a report that Linden Labs are using around 4000 servers now...
if that's true, buy this person's calculations, they consume as much
electricity as all the people in Brazil:
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/12/avatars_consume.php
Second Life is really amazing - you can do almost anything there.
Therefore, it's almost as good as zombo.com, where you can do literally
anything.
Jeff

Jeremy L. Gaddis wrote:
> Mark Krenz wrote:
>
>>

http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=142
>>
>> I mentioned during a BLUG meeting that I thought someone needs to
>> develop and open protocol 3d distributed network. I can't believe
>> that Linden Labs is choosing to do that. But that's great.
>>
>
> There was an article in Baseline magazine a few months ago about Linden
> Labs, talking about their infrastructure. At the time of writing, they
> had 1800 Debian servers running their databases, a handful running their
> Internet-facing web servers, and said they were adding an average of a
> rack full (42) of 1U servers a week to keep up...
>
>
>

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