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 -- http://nicegear.co.nz New Zealand's VoIP supplier
