[sllug-members]: GoogleEarthLinux.bin caveat

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

I installed GoogleEarthLinux.bin this afternoon on a Pentium 3 and an
Opteron, both running Red Hat Advanced Server Linux Release 4.

I can run the googleearth locally on the Opteron, and also remotely
from another Opteron.

When I tried the same on my Sun Solaris 10 SPARC system, it froze up
for 15 minutes, with no keyboard response, and no possibility of
non-root login via remote ssh.  I've now made more experiments, and
found that ANY attempt to run googleearth from a GNU/Linux system with
display on a Solaris system produces a total denial of service, and
the Solaris system has to be rebooted.

In each case, $HOME/.googleearth points to a local, rather than
NFS-mounted disk, as googleearth recommends on startup.

Readers may care to try similar experiments between other platforms,
and report them to this list.

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