On Wednesday 30 August 2006 15:15, Stephen Irons wrote:
> Both Picasa and Google Earth have linux versions. Picasa is definitely
> windows-with-wine, according to
> http://picasa.google.com/linux/learn_more.html
>
> So, how does it work? Picasa for Linux runs the current Windows version
> of Picasa using a carefully tested version of Wine, an open-source
> implementation of the Windows application-programming interface (API).
>
> I think that Google Earth is too, but I could not find a similar note
> about how they made Google Earth.

Google Earth is native, it does bundle a whole load of shared libraries 
instead of using the systems though.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ file google-earth/googleearth-bin
googleearth-bin: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for 
GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.2.0, 
stripped

hads

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