On 6/14/06, Baishampayan Ghose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Siddhesh,
On 06/14/2006 11:25 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar cobbled together some glyphs
to say:
>> Google has started supporting their apps on linux first was picasa
>> and now its ggl earth
> It's not native Linux support though AFAIK. They are supported
> through wine.
No. It's a native port and uses Qt + OpenGL. It's been ported by Ryan C.
Gordon of icculus
(http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/finger/finger.pl?user=icculus) who is very
well known for his native Linux ports.
Regards,
BG
If non-free-source status of google earth bothers you, have a look at
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ from nasa. Wonderful opensource
multi-platform app.
Ironically the free-source app gets its data from a TerraServerUSA of
Microsoft. :)
regards,
C
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