Is purchasing the only way to obtain L$?

[judypsl]

are there ways to earn them? Thanks.

[sven Homewood]

Get a job, but you don't become rich with it http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Guide_to_Jobs_in_Second_Life

learn to build, script, creating of clothes .... and open a business, sell your creation's is for sure a long term project and needs a long breath. You can join contets etc and try to win this way some L$ there are also some other games where you can collect some kind of coins and get paid out after having collected some of those, and try the Linden Realms. Just a reminder: some ways of getting L$ are not really worth of trying, they cost you a lot of time and the reward is far bellow being fair. Some are quite good and ok if you see the fun that comes with it, like being a host in a good club, when you're good in animating people. DJing can be paid good, if you're really good with music and also good with people. A playlist player won't last long (and is pretty good with complaining about the low tips;)).