I've been playing with an EEE PC lately. This 299€ (in Portugal) GNU/Linux ASUS laptop is awsome, and I'm really happy that ASUS did it. They did some mistakes, like using Xandros Server 2.0 as base for their distro, making me think, for instance, that if I had one of these I would replace their Operating System with something like Debian Eee PC, eeexubuntu or even eeedora. I might write about my thoughts on EEE PC later, but for now, a quick HOWTO (because I think this isn't documented nowhere) on installing Second Life on EEE PC.

Following my previous posts on the issue, if you were using my Debian packages to have Second Life in Debian, please change and start using the packages (aptitude install slviewer) on this repositories:
deb http://cornelius.demon.co.uk/apt/ unstable main
deb-src http://cornelius.demon.co.uk/apt/ unstable main
deb http://apt.byteme.org.uk/apt/ unstable main
deb-src http://apt.byteme.org.uk/apt/ unstable main

For future reference:

• go to http://dist.opensimulator.org/ and get the latest .tgz
• aptitude install:
• mono
• libmono-corlib2.0-cil
• libmono-sqlite2.0-cil
• libmono-system-web2.0-cil
• libmono-microsoft8.0-cil
• libmono-system-runtime2.0-cil

• unpack the .tgz, cd opensim and nant

Now you're ready to go :-)

(More extensive info at http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page)

One thing I've decided to this weekend was that I wouldn't have "dead times", so everytime when the presentations were not that interesting, or if I thought I could listen to it and do something at the same time I was with my laptop managing some stuff or coding on SLTalker, my project that aimed to create a talker interface for Second Life.

New Second Life (slviewer) packages for Debian Etch (stable) i386 are available here.

Links for today:

With the lack of time, here's a big bunch of random stuff you might be interested of: