Getting Started

Mon, Jun 20 2011

Where to get content for OpenSim

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Updated February 20, 2012 One of the common complaints enterprises have about OpenSim is that if they set up a private grid, they’ll have to create all the content from scratch. Employees will have...

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Tue, Apr 19 2011

OpenSim 103: Securing your grid

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Enterprises rolling out new OpenSim grids are often concerned about security issues of running OpenSim, and justifiably so. OpenSim is alpha software and still poses some security challenges. However,...

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Sun, Apr 17 2011

OpenSim 102: Running your own sims

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There are plenty of reasons to run OpenSim on your own computers. If you’re a content creator, you can have as many regions as you want, for free, and load them up when you need to work on them....

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Fri, Apr 8 2011

OpenSim 101: Renting land

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This is a primer for folks considering moving into OpenSim who have never used OpenSim before and who don’t have much of a technical background. Things move fast in the OpenSim universe, so last...

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Mon, Oct 25 2010

OpenSim payments 101

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One of the most confusing parts of moving to OpenSim is figuring out how the commerce system works. Not as confusing, maybe, than than figuring out how to run the server software, learning how to hypergrid,...

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Fri, Oct 8 2010

Join a grid or run your own?

Also in: Maria's Worlds, Resources

In the wake of the closing of Second Life’s Teen Grid, and the price hike to educators and non-profits, many organizations are considering moving to OpenSim. The first question they usually ask themselves...

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Tue, Oct 5 2010

How to choose an OpenSim hosting company

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Yes, you can run OpenSim for free on your own computer - you can even run it on a USB stick. But do you want to? Here’s a question — would you run your own Apache Web server for your website,...

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Mon, Oct 4 2010

Advice to educators

Also in: Maria's Worlds, Resources

Today, Linden Lab announced that the price of land for educators and non-profits will double in January. As a result, the price differential between Second Life land and OpenSim becomes even more significant. You...

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Getting Started

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