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

[Nick Veys]

Google Earth for Linux is completely native...

http://icculus.org/news/news.php?id=3188

On 6/14/06, Daniel Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, June 14, 2006 18:48, Noel Leistad wrote:
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> > Not trying to be the one running up w/ the cold bucket of water,
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> > thought I read the Linux version was based on WINE/Crossover
> voodoo.
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> > Loaded the Picasa for Linux on my work system the other day.
> Performed
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> > pretty well for my immediate needs, but maybe that's WINE/Crossover
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> > magic too?
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> When I ran the Linux version of "Google Earth" it was a true
> Linux binary -- none of the Win32 'artifacts' that WINE exhibits (i.e. the
> file-oriented menus did not have the Windows look).
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> You are right that "Picasa" for Linux is just a WINE wrappered
> version of the Win32 executable. (I haven't played with
> Picasa/Linux, but I do like the Picasa/Win32 version.)
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> Dan
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