[olug] F.Y.I. - Google Earth, now available on Linux!

[Noel Leistad]

Not trying to be the one running up w/ the cold bucket of water, but 
thought I read the Linux version was based on WINE/Crossover voodoo.

Loaded the Picasa for Linux on my work system the other day. Performed 
pretty well for my immediate needs, but maybe that's WINE/Crossover 
magic too?

Daniel Linder wrote:
> I just downloaded it and it is a lot like the Windows version I've used
> before (no suprise).
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> The only gotcha that I encounterd was that my ATI card driver (the ATI
> OpenGL version) has a bug and apparetly all OpenGL accelorated graphics
> are broke at the current time (Kubuntu 6.06) -- the fix is high on the
> Ubuntu team list so shouldn't be too long.  Thankfully I don't do
> much in OpenGL right now. :)
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> I did play with it a bit using the MesaGL (software rendering) and it was
> as fast as could be expected.  Glad to see that Google has thrown
> some of it's weight behind native Linux clients.  Now I want a native
> Picasa client!
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> Dan
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> On Wed, June 14, 2006 09:51, Jay Swackhamer wrote:
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>> Some excellent news this morning for all you Linux jockeys - you
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> can
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>> now join the rest of the planet in enjoying Google Earth, as the
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>> search monolith has just released Version 4 beta of the programme
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> in
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>> PC, Mac and Linux flavours.
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