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Originally Posted by Sarah Nerd  I'm clueless with this stuff and don't intend on trying it, but I have a close friend who is thinking of doing his own sim that way for educational purposes and thought it would be a cheaper alternative to official SL that isn't practical price wise. |
He could make his own personal grid with OpenSim. Or he could join someone elses grid.
It is a bit like wanting to make your own website. You could run it on your own computer, rent server space and set up your own web server or you could join some company and put your website on their servers.
If they are technically inclined they could host their own (either a whole grid, or they could host a region/simulator and register with OSGrid).
If they just want to log in somewhere and build they will have to join an alternate grid.
If it is not for access via the internet but just locally they should run OpenSim on their computer. (
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