Hi The greatest difference is that the previous generation vieewrs were based on the Second Life viewer whereas Naali is an entirely new design built from scratch. There were a lot of things we wanted to do with the original viewer that would've required significant rewrites to the code and the GPL license of the Linden Lab code wasn't well liked by the open virtual worlds community so we decided to start from scratch.
The work began in early 2009 and the first releases thought to be interesting for wider use (0.1 onwards) were released in early 2010. Currently Naali already does some things better than the previous generation viewer and although it doesn't have all the features yet, it's catching up pretty fast (just check out the changelogs to see the pace the devs are creating new features and fixes). Taiga is pretty much the same story, although the changes aren't as dramatic. It is still based on OpenSim (it's a good project and a solid platform for virtual worlds) and ModreX, the biggest differences to OpenSim plus ModreX is the Sciencesim-based OpenSim distribution and Cable Beach authentication / content delivery services that were added to the mix. Taiga and Naali are the currently developed versions. It is of course possible to deploy OS + ModreX servers based on newer OS versions, but there are few benefits compared to the full Taiga suite. Development on the old reX viewer has been on hold for a good while now and it is expected to be completely replaced by Naali in the near future. 2010/5/21 mattdevlin <mdevl...@uwo.ca> > Maybe I'm missing something, but what exactly is the benefit of using > Naali and Taiga over the realXtend server and viewer? I've been using > realXtend for maybe a year and it's great, but when I've dabbled in > Naali (and it was only momentarily) it didn't seem to me that it was > any better. If anyone could explain the differences it would be > greatly appreciated. > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend > http://www.realxtend.org -- http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend http://www.realxtend.org
