An ongoing issue for Second Life residents is the constant need to get up-to-date software. Usually, this comes from the need to update, but often it comes from being on a computer that is not your own–for instance, at a convention. It’s not all that hard the “old” way, but it involved going to the Website and having to click twice. For modern netizens that can be too much work. 🙂 Seriously, the problem for some people is remembering where on the page to find the link.
By the way, if you haven’t heard, the best way, it seems, for most people to your software when SL requires it (or suggests it) is to go to the Web site, not use the automatic updater built into the client. People report many fewer problems with just downloading and installing a “fresh” load. Your settings are retained, so no worries about losing information.
In this context, Jeff Linden has announced a personal project to make this process easier. To get the latest client build, just go to http://get.secondlife.com/. Reportedly, as soon as you go there the Web site will autodetect your operating system and start the proper download.
Jeff Linden cautions that any autodetection software can make a mistake, so if you are, for instance, on a Mac and it starts downloading the Linux client, you can stop the download and then go to the appropriate link for your platform:
You can read his entire post (which I recommend) on the official Linden blog.
