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Help me understand Seadragon!

Help me understand how to host Seadragon files on my linux server! I run an online journal, which is hosted on a Dreamhost private server. Standard configuration - Linux, Apache etc. A potential contributor has asked me if he can incorporate Seadragon content into a piece he's working on. So I started looking into Seadragon and there's something I'm just not getting. It looks like it generates static xml files in addition to the images, but I don't know how those get accessed & rendered in browsers. Also, it looks like Seadragon content can be deployed without Silverlight. Can you help?

Specific questions:

Can a standard Linux server host and deliver Seadragon content? i.e. is this exclusively a Microsoft server thing?
Is there a detailed tutorial online on what needs to be done on the server end?
The author will be generating the Seadragon content. It looks to me like there are multiple ways to do it and multiple file output formats -- is there one specific one he should use?

 

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