Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > >> > >Its probably because you are running 64bit. I could be completely wrong > >here, but I am guessing that google has done exactly the same with GE as > >they did with Picasa, in that rather than making a Linux port, they are > >using a small customised version of wine that the program uses to run. > >So basically it is just the Windows version customised to be more wine > >friendly and then all wrapped up in sheeps clothing to appear to be a > >linux app. And the last time I looked wine was not a good option on > >64bit distros. > > > >Tuxta > > > This might be likely. I looked at the .bin script and a lot of the > functions are named MS_???
Actually, GE has been ported natively rather than using wine. The win32 version used QT and other cross platform libraries, so it made sense to use those natively in linux too. The guy in charge of porting it isn't a big wine fan and used to work for Loki who made native linux ports of games. My experience with the Linux GE is that it works, except under my i915 GL drivers I get masses of flicker. I'm on deb unstable/xorg 7.something. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
