> Each (Mac, Windows, Linux) is using the same images.  Although http://
> opencroquet.org/WiscWorlds/ only has links for Windows and Mac 
> installers, both of these installers have options (off by default) 
> which give you the Linux VM.  You need to use one of these and copy  to
> Linux for a reason: We don't have a way to test Linux opengl  graphics
> and openal sound, and my impression is that both are more  buggy than I
> want to deal with. (In fact, openAL doesn't work on the  Linux box
> described above, and the software silently catches the  error and
> ignores sound so that I can continue using it a router and  headless
> peer.) So if you want to work with this on Linux, you should  really
> have one of Windows/Mac so you can debug the graphics and  sound yourself.

My Linux machine loads the Croquet image just fine. However it crashes
THE MACHINE when I try to open a 3D space. This is unquestionably a
problem with the linux kernel _AND_ the X-org server because the OS
should guarentee that no program can put the computer into an
unrecoverable state. I suspect that a lock deep in the kernel is not
beeing freed and the entire SMP machine is coming to a screeching halt...

For this reason and because I would really like to play Spore, I will
probably buy a windows machine about this time next year, funds
permitting... =((((

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