Native port of Google Earth released for Linux

Post by **Patrick** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:10 pm

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.

granduke · Post by **granduke** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:35 pm

Even works fine on a Geforce 2.

CptnObvious999 · Post by **CptnObvious999** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:45 pm

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

Post by **Patrick** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:02 am

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

Post by **dann** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:30 am

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.

Karl · Post by **Karl** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:02 am

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.

Jza · Post by **Jza** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 1:19 pm

Looks great check out the Video

Judland · Post by **Judland** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:21 pm

Works pretty well under Mandriva 2006, too.

Wally Balljacker · Post by **Wally Balljacker** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 5:42 pm

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.

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:37 pm

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.

no1important · Post by **no1important** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:00 am

Works good on Kubuntu as well.

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:06 pm

Of course it works on Arch with a Nvidia 6600gt. Really sweet - good on google for doing the linux community up.

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Native port of Google Earth released for Linux

Native port of Google Earth released for Linux

Check ou tthe video

Re: Check ou tthe video