On Monday 12 June 2006 21:55, Robert Schwedler wrote:

You Can download a linux version of earth http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html no wine needed. It works on my 10.0 system great. Don't know about Picasa.

bob schwedler

Picasa works fine for me. Thadeu --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org

Am Dienstag, 13. Juni 2006 08:11 schrieb Pascal Bleser:

jdd wrote:

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Peter Flodin wrote:

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Has anybody tried this yet? Is it native or is it like the Google Picasa that comes with its own patched version of wine.

seems native, but how can know (no "wine" in the folders)

It's native, just look at the files that are installed: no .dll, no .exe, just .so (it's a QT 3 application).

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installs locally, no need to be root!! very slow without opengl as could be guessed

Right.. but very fast with opengl :)

cheers

sounds interesting, but what must I do after downloading the GoogleEarthLinux.bin??? Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com special interest site: http://www.bauer-nudes.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org

Am Dienstag, 13. Juni 2006 08:31 schrieb Marcus Meissner:

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sounds interesting, but what must I do after downloading the GoogleEarthLinux.bin???

sh ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin

Ciao, Marcus

Thanks, Markus works fine on Suse 10.0, Kde 3.5.3 Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com special interest site: http://www.bauer-nudes.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org

radoeka wrote:

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:47:59AM +1000, Peter Flodin wrote:

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Has anybody tried this yet? Is it native or is it like the Google Picasa that comes with its own patched version of wine.

I am dying to get home and try this tonight, and I will know the answers myself of course.

http://en.opensuse.org/Google_Earth http://en.opensuse.org/Picasa

Any rpm alround for this already? Or does that not make sense?

Well, it can be installed by normal user, and runs from ~/bin, so it's fine with me for it to be packaged as it is. It appears to be native linux, and it runs quite nicely here. Thank you google, for finally coming through - Joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org

Shriramana Sharma wrote:

Tuesday 13 June 2006 13:15 samaye, J Sloan alekhiit:

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http://en.opensuse.org/Google_Earth It appears to be native linux, and it runs quite nicely here.

The instructions on the openSUSE wiki are for the non-native version - version 3, which was compiled for Windows. Version 4 (beta) is native, and does not require wine.

Ah that explains it - I went straight for the beta version, and never even looked at version 3. I hope they have the same kind of plan in mind for picasa... Joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org

Lorenzo Paulatto wrote:

Peter Flodin ha scritto:

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Has anybody tried this yet? Is it native or is it like the Google Picasa that comes with its own patched version of wine.

Nice but it locked up my ATI drivers (fglrx_6_9_0_SUSE101-8.24.8-1) after a few minutes and I was forced to reboot via hardware.

Yep, that's been my experience with ATI in general for some years. FWIW, it's rock solid on all my nvidia powered linux boxen. Joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org

Am Mittwoch, 14. Juni 2006 00:18 schrieb André Malin:

Le mardi 13 juin 2006 18:09, J Sloan a écrit :

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Has anybody tried this yet? Is it native or is it like the Google Picasa that comes with its own patched version of wine.

Nice but it locked up my ATI drivers (fglrx_6_9_0_SUSE101-8.24.8-1) after a few minutes and I was forced to reboot via hardware.

Yep, that's been my experience with ATI in general for some years.

FWIW, it's rock solid on all my nvidia powered linux boxen.

Joe

I second that, works rock solid on my 3 nvidis boxes and fails miserabily on the ATI one.

Works with nvidia and ati for me. Herby --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org

On Wednesday 14 June 2006 8:57 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:

Fred,

On Tuesday 13 June 2006 23:58, Fred A. Miller wrote:

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The images needs some work....rural areas really lack in sharp definition. But, the software works fine.

That's the nature of the dataset. The high-resolution images are from aerial photography, and exists only where someone had a reason to pay to have it created. The low-resolution images are from satellites. You'll also notice some states (Indiana, e.g.) have high (-er) resolution images state-wide, but most do not.

Ok......thanks. Satellite pics. CAN and OFTEN are MUCH better than what they have. :( Fred -- Paid purchaser of ALL SuSE Linux releases since 6.x --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org

On Wednesday 14 June 2006 1:56 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:

Optics is what it is. That is to say, the closer you are to the   object you wish to observe visually (or photographically), the better   resolution is available. The size of the lens matters, too, but   there's no getting around diffraction-limited resolution, and   satellites will never read newspaper headlines. And they certainly   won't read license plates! (And you can't "redirect" a satellite, TV   shows like "24" notwithstanding.)

I'm well aware of how they work, and even more about optics. ;)

I'm not saying there isn't better satellite imagery than what is   available to the general public, but the fanciful notion that you can   capture as much detail from orbit as you can from a airplane is   absurd and is a reality that exists only in TV and movies (and   paranoid or uncritical minds, I suppose).

I've seen some satellite images that you'd find quite astonishing. Fred -- Paid purchaser of ALL SuSE Linux releases since 6.x --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org

On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 02:58 -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote:

On Monday 12 June 2006 7:47 pm, Peter Flodin wrote:

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Has anybody tried this yet? Is it native or is it like the Google Picasa that comes with its own patched version of wine.

I am dying to get home and try this tonight, and I will know the answers myself of course.

http://en.opensuse.org/Google_Earth

The images needs some work....rural areas really lack in sharp definition. But, the software works fine.

Fred

Some areas are at a lower resolution probably for security reasons. And it seems that some of the scans are a few years old. Removing the sidebar makes the program run much slower (reporting to Google). It's nice to finally see things ported to native linux. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org

On 6/14/06, Harry ten Berge wrote:

This is a NATIVE Linux application!

Because GoogleEarth is written with the beatiful Qt :-)

This is a *very* impressive application. Google rocks, Trolltech rocks!

Regards Harry

Yes it is impressive. And it is great seeing a good application supported on Windows, Mac and Linux. Now if I could just get an XMPP client that supports voice. (ie Google Talk on Linux), though I rather have Google talk support SIP, but I drift off topic. Pflodo Peter Flodin ps --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org