Linden Lab is looking for a full time Linux developer to work on their Linux port (and naturally, hack on other stuff as well once the port is complete). That job is remote and doesn’t require you to move to San Francisco – yay – so that’s new from when I last talked to them about that. Linux/SL users have been limping along with a half finished port and Wine for many months now, so hopefully the ‘Lab can find a good Linux developer soon. I don’t work there but have been following their efforts for some time, they’re a cool company and if you want to write software for the platform it’d be a good place to work. Send mail to Karen (the email address is the obvious one).
They are also aware of and even supporting the effort to reverse engineer the SL client protocol, which is pretty cool. [Would be cooler if they documented it in a non-XOR-encrypted form of course ....](http://eightbar.co.uk/2006/06/01/sl-projects-to-watch-out-for/)
