| First impressions of Google Earth for Linux |
Jun. 15, 2006
 The new Google Earth for Linux is both a great tool and a great toy, writes DesktopLinux.com columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. Find the TV dish on your roof, discover a new route to grandma's house, or simply be an eye in the sky.
Unlike the other recently released Google application for Linux -- the photo editing program Picasa, which runs with its own bundled copy of WINE, an open-source implementation of the Windows API (application programming interface) -- Google Earth is a native Linux application using a Qt-based application environment, Vaughan-Nichols observes.
"The result is an application that enables users to tour about the globe. Much of North America, Australia, and Europe can now be seen with up to 1-meter per pixel resolution," he writes.
Vaughan-Nichols tested the free-of-charge Google Earth for Linux on two systems -- Open SUSE and Ubuntu -- and came away impressed with both. He also has some other candid observations. Read them here:
First impressions of Google Earth for Linux
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