[sllug-members]: The time has come: Google Earth for Linux

[Knight Walker]

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 06:56 -0600, Matthew Hatch wrote:
> Nope -- It's a very native Linux application, and has the performance to
> prove it.  Very snappy on my system.

Yes, it is.  It's written with Qt even.  All hail Ryan Gordon (Who
reportedly helped them with this).

> Picasa uses WINE, but from their FAQ:
> 
> Q:  Will more Google applications be ported to Linux under Wine?
> 
> If Picasa for Linux is successful, then other Google applications (and
> future versions of Picasa) may also be ported using Wine.  (Google Earth
> won't be one of them, though; it will be a native Linux application.)

Blech.

-KW