VISTA, LINUX DISSED YA

If, as Robert Scoble predicts, Second Life eventually becomes the PC's underlying operating system, there may finally be no reason to use Windows.  In a head-to-head taste taste, the SL Herald reports that Second Life's not-even-Beta viewer for Linux smokes the SL-for-Vista.  The benchmark nugget:

In the Pixel Expo II sim, Vista managed between 10 to 20 [FPS], while Linux got 14 through 40 frames per second. You can feel that difference in speed... In Dublin [sim], both systems were slower: Vista from 7.5 through 10 and Linux from 9 through 20 FPS. Not as much as in the other location, but still visible.

Get up to 20-40 FPS, and you're talking a Second Life that's got a fast enough frame rate to play, well, an FPS.  Sounds like a future on Linux to me.  Read about the showdown here.

Comments

[Erbo Evans]

Now if only I could get some good ATI accelerated drivers for Linux so that I could get the SL client to work...