Ways To Get Inworld: A List of Second Life Viewers
Ways To Get Inworld: A Short List of Second Life Viewers
The way inworld is through a program known as a viewer. The one put out by Linden Lab is perhaps the most obvious, but since the source code has been generously put out to be tinkered with, there are a wide number of viewers available to access Second Life with. A comphrehensive (though possibly dated) list can be found on the Second Life Wiki here. This list, being for a Newbie Guide, is limited to viewers that share three essential qualities:
- They can be easily downloaded and launched.
- They are being updated regularly.
- They are available for all three major platforms (Windows, Macintosh and Linux.)
The official Second Life viewer, naturally, can be downloaded at SecondLife.com. The Release Candidate Viewer (a chance to test the most recent changes before they become official) and Snowglobe (an open source project built in conjunction with Linden Lab) can also be found here.
Imprudence is an open source project spearheaded by Jacek Antonelli and McCabe Maxsted.
GreenLife Emerald Viewer is "homebrewn" [sic] viewer hosted by Modular Systems.
Should you know of a viewer that meets the aforementioned criteria that is not on this list, feel free to IM me inworld (CyFishy Traveler) and let me know about it. (I also have a Gmail account under my first name. If you are clever enough to discern my email address from the previous sentence, you're probably not a spambot.)
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