After the last tutorial I thought I would do another post with a video link for you.
This time, I'll be talking about Linux, so, if you have no interest in Linux just skip this and wait for my next post. Ha ha !
Now basically, Linux is usually really easy to use these days and things usually work right out the box. So, your desktop, the client you use for Island Oasis etc, will frequently be really easy to set up and use.
Couple of caveats though. Sound is still the most problematic thing to work perfectly. Some of you will know when I try to speak on Vivox using Linux all you hear from me is bursts of static instead of my voice (and some more of you will probably be saying that's a good thing ! meanies !)
Usually these problems will be down to your choice of distribution, the sound card you have, and what sound server is running.
Most distributions use something called Pulse audio which now is stable enough to work pretty well, and in fact, I now have voice working prefectly under Linux (Ubuntu) inworld.
Now, as you probably know, in IO we use Ventrilo for conference calls, meetings and group chats etc. But sadly, those people at Ventrilo have been promising a linux compatible client for several years and not come up with the goods. So it's Opensource to the rescue (yay opensource, it's why we have a choice of clients for IO,opensim and SL) in the form of Mangler. A fully compatible client for your voice server needs.
Suffice to say, it works very well and the short(ish) video clip shows how to set it up and running.
Hope that explains things better, and check back soon Windows users. I'll be doing something O/S agnostic very soon. :)
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