[kde-announce] G System 0.5.0, the multi-user evolving universe, released!

Finally, the 0.5 release of the G System is released to public. This 
release marks an important milestone in the history of this project: 
multi-user capability. It's the first release where many users can 
join in the same virtual universe.

To disspell a myth right at the beginning, you will only be able to 
travel around and talk to each other in this virtual universe yet, 
not much more happening yet. Still, the framework as such is rather 
complete and allows for additional development of functionality well.



And what is the G System? In Short, taken from the README:

The G System is a free and open source simulation framework and 
virtual reality.

The framework provides network distributed operation, which allows for 
huge simulations.

The virtual reality created with the G System, called G Universe, 
focuses on evolution, thus creating a virtual, multi-user, evolving 
universe with both adventurous and scientific aspects.



This combination of scientific research, into rather interesting areas 
by the way, and a virtual online reality is what makes the G System 
so exciting. Users are thus thrown into a world that's enjoyable as 
well as interesting from the aspect of evolution and life research, 
resulting in an evolving universe where the user is part of it as a 
whole. And... above all, the current client is even a Jabber IM 
client!

The aspect of evolution and life research is quite an important one as 
it tries to fill a gap in today's general knowledgebase. This process 
is not just about implementing all physical and mathematical 
equations, but about forming a complete world, where the aspects of 
life itself are implemented. This goal implies many philosophical 
considerations which are at least as important as actually coding the 
application.

This opens the project to a group of people not usually concerned with 
software development, namely philosophical people. These people are 
invited to join the project as well as coders, documentation writers, 
artists and translators. Financial contribution is also gratefully 
accepted since it allows us to spend more time on this project and to 
pay server hosting bills.

Apart from such contributions the most important contributors are the 
users themselves. Please don't hesitate to give us constructive 
feedback.


The first universe:

With the 0.5 release of the G System we start our first virtual 
universe. It is obvious that it should be filled with users. If you 
want to give it a try, simply download the package and install the G 
System - this release features a graphical installer for complete 
noobs. If you encounter any problems don't hesitate to ask us on our 
mailing lists. If you encounter no problems, you can join the mailing 
lists as well of course.

As a 0.5 release is still a development release you are highly advised 
to subscribe at least to the users mailing list to get notifications 
about important changes, server downtimes and all this stuff - in 
case you try out the G System.

I (Raphael) have, finally, also set up my own blog which, of course, 
discusses design considerations and general development of the G 
System, among other things. You are highly welcome to give feedback 
and discuss further development and also philosophical considerations 
through comments.



Links:

Homepage and Download:
http://www.g-system.at

Documentation:
http://www.g-system.at/page_doc_api.php

Mailing Lists:
http://www.g-system.at/page_doc_maillist.php

G Universe server status:
http://www.g-system.at/page_doc_server.php

KDE-APPS entry:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=14721

Raphael's blog:
http://raphael.g-system.at/blog


PS: What do you think about the graphical installer?
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