Re: Google Earth

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On Saturday 12 January 2008, David Boles wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>| On Saturday 12 January 2008, David Boles wrote:
>|> Antonio M wrote:
>|> | 2008/1/12, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>|> |
>|> | Please note that I am running F9, but I agree with Ed: I had prelink
>|> | running and Ge was fine, then I upgraded Xserver and GE crashed my
>|> | system logging out the user.
>|> | I don't know how and what to debug (note that I am not a software
>|> | expert) .
>|> |
>|> | Where is GoogleEarth installed in Fedora???
>|>
>|> Google Earth is a Windows program that runs in WINE. I have not used it
>|> in quite a while but it used to come already configured with its own,
>|> specially configured, version of WINE. And it was not FOSS. It also took
>|> a 3D video driver which you had to provide.
>|
>| If that's a wine managed program, it sure does one heck of a job of hiding
>| that fact here, cuz it runs great natively here if I use the nvidia
>| driver, nv of course will do all sorts of interesting things as other have
>| already reported.
>|
>|> So you have more to look at here. A kernel upgrade, which was 01/11/2008.
>|> A WINE upgrade which was 01/12/2008. And, depending on what parts of Xorg
>|> you have installed, the latest upgrade was 01/09/2008.
>
>Well as I said it was a long time ago that I used this. A little searching
>found this so I guess itt depends on whether this was released ever
> released. My information could be out of date. If so Mi  Culpa.
>
The newest version from just a week or so back, has grown a few more pages of 
bells and whistles, even some sky maps!  As we used to say when I was driving 
a 1940 ford, Neat!

>Google Earth for Linux
>http://www.linux.com/articles/55077
>--
>
>
>~  David



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