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Native port of Google Earth released for Linux
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:10 pm
by Patrick
Supposedly it's built using the qt toolkit:
http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
I'm pretty impressed with this. Works very fast with OpenGL on my Nvidia MX440 card.
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:35 pm
by granduke
Even works fine on a Geforce 2.
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:45 pm
by CptnObvious999
granduke wrote:Even works fine on a Geforce 2.
Not for me on my GeForce 6200. Look:
(yes that is supposed to be Africa...I think)
Maybe its that fact that I am running bleeding edge software or AMD64. Whatever I wouldn't really use it much if at all, but it's nice to know Google cares
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:02 am
by Patrick
CptnObvious999 wrote:Maybe its that fact that I am running bleeding edge software or AMD64. Whatever I wouldn't really use it much if at all, but it's nice to know Google cares
It's unfortunate that it doesn't work well with an AMD64 based system. Hopefully they work out the bugs soon.
Here's a review of Google Earth:
http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructur ... 1026RVDTSW
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:30 am
by dann
Patrick wrote:
It's unfortunate that it doesn't work well with an AMD64 based system. Hopefully they work out the bugs soon.
It won't work on PPC either.
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:02 am
by Karl
CptnObvious999 wrote:
Maybe its that fact that I am running bleeding edge software or AMD64. Whatever I wouldn't really use it much if at all, but it's nice to know Google cares
I have it running on Gentoo AMD64 using a Geforce 6600 and it runs great. I'm using mostly stable versions of everything.
Although my work computer I can't get the 3D working with an ATI on Google Earth.
Check ou tthe video
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 1:19 pm
by Jza
Looks great check out the
Video
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:21 pm
by Judland
Works pretty well under Mandriva 2006, too.
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 5:42 pm
by Wally Balljacker
I have it running on a Radeon Mobility X300 with Ubuntu, and it works great. I also have it on a GeForce 6200 under Gentoo, and it runs flawlessly as well. Nice work Google, here's to PPC, and AMD64 versions in the near future.
Re: Check ou tthe video
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:37 pm
by snarkout
Jza wrote:Looks great check out the
Video
I get a link telling me to upgrade flash, which I can't do, an another link telling me to download theora, which I have already done.
EDIT: nevermind - the link to download ogg-theora is actually the link to download the file in .ogg format. Poorly worded at best.
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:00 am
by no1important
Works good on Kubuntu as well.
Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:06 pm
by snarkout
Of course it works on Arch with a Nvidia 6600gt. Really sweet - good on google for doing the linux community up.