Re: [osol-discuss] Google Earth

2006-06-13 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
Yes, and it works. I don't have native OpenGL drivers on my desktop machine, so the performance is pretty terrible. I'll have to find a machine with an Nvidia card and see how it performs then. On Mon 06/12/06 at 17:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone tried it in BrandZ? Adam On

Re: [osol-discuss] Google Earth

2006-06-13 Thread Erast Benson
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 18:05 -0700, Matt Ingenthron wrote: Erast Benson wrote: I think Google folks did a nice job on Google Earth for GNU/Linux. Their applications does not depends on any sort of distribution's permutations and installs all needed libraries in a single user home directory

Re: [osol-discuss] Google Earth

2006-06-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Erast Benson wrote: Besides, do you really care about of 5-6MB extra memory these days? My overpowered machines don't, but I know a lot of people working on the One-Laptop-Per-Child project who really really do, and they might like to see Google Earth as a teaching tool for those machines. --

Re: [osol-discuss] Google Earth

2006-06-13 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 11:15 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Erast Benson wrote: Besides, do you really care about of 5-6MB extra memory these days? My overpowered machines don't, but I know a lot of people working on the One-Laptop-Per-Child project who really really do, and they might

[osol-discuss] Google Earth

2006-06-12 Thread Stephen Harpster
Hey, Google engineers, any chance of getting a href=http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html;Google Earth v4/a ported to OpenSolaris? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Google Earth

2006-06-12 Thread Rich Teer
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Stephen Harpster wrote: Hey, Google engineers, any chance of getting a href=http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html;Google Earth v4/a ported to OpenSolaris? Hear, hear! Or, how about a Java version? Write once, run anywhere, and all that jazz... -- Rich Teer,

Re: [osol-discuss] Google Earth

2006-06-12 Thread Glynn Foster
Rich Teer wrote: On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Stephen Harpster wrote: Hey, Google engineers, any chance of getting a href=http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html;Google Earth v4/a ported to OpenSolaris? Hear, hear! Or, how about a Java version? Write once, run anywhere, and all that jazz...

Re: [osol-discuss] Google Earth

2006-06-12 Thread Stefan Teleman
On 6/12/06, Glynn Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [1] Seems GTK+ is used for the installer, and QT is used for the application. You have to wonder who inspired that decision ;) Someone who may have thought that a sucky installer is probably less important than a sucky application.

Re: [osol-discuss] Google Earth

2006-06-12 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 11:53 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: Rich Teer wrote: On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Stephen Harpster wrote: Hey, Google engineers, any chance of getting a href=http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html;Google Earth v4/a ported to OpenSolaris? Hear, hear! Or, how

Re: [osol-discuss] Google Earth

2006-06-12 Thread Glynn Foster
Erast Benson wrote: On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 11:53 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: Rich Teer wrote: On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Stephen Harpster wrote: Hey, Google engineers, any chance of getting a href=http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html;Google Earth v4/a ported to OpenSolaris? Hear, hear!

[OT[ Re: [osol-discuss] Google Earth Available on Linux - NOW

2006-06-12 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hey, Google engineers, any chance of getting a href=http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html;Google Earth v4/a ported to OpenSolaris? Well.. I just found out that Google Earth has been ported to run on MacOS and Linux. http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html I've just DL'ed it

Re: [osol-discuss] Google Earth

2006-06-12 Thread Adam Leventhal
Has anyone tried it in BrandZ? Adam On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 03:22:58PM -0700, Stephen Harpster wrote: Hey, Google engineers, any chance of getting a href=http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html;Google Earth v4/a ported to OpenSolaris? This message posted from opensolaris.org