It's actually been released this time, so yes, I'm using it now!

doesnt it require a special SL viewer to be installed aside to be able to operate?

I believe you only have to log in with the new viewer once; after that you can go back to the usual one.

what point if the machine you're on cannot run openGL graphics? i love the idea of a slim IM client for SL but im not sure about this

try it tonight and see for herself how it's supposed to be working

The SLim client itself doesn't need OpenGL as far as I know (and there should be no reason it does).

So once you are in, it should work anywhere. It doesn't work for me, though.

ooooh okay so you kinda just need a handshake, then you should be able to install the SLim client anywhere?

As far as I know - but I'm not sure, you may need to sync your friends list per machine rather than per account.

tell you if I ever manage to get it to work!

i certainly will Ordinal =)