Google Earth For Linux Soon

With this and Picassa, I feel like Google is FINALLY giving Linux some recognition. Well, it’s about time guys! Better late than never…

After Picasa, another Google software (well at least Google-owned software) will be ported to Linux: Google Earth. From LinuxToday:

“Picasa, founded in 2001, was purchased by Google in July of 2004, and the photo management tool has seen some extensive use, albeit from Windows users. DiBona indicated that Google made a public committment to begin porting two applications to Linux about a year ago. The other application in this project is Google Earth. Picasa for Linux was announced first simply because it was finished first.

When asked if the additions to WINE would bootstrap Google Earth’s porting progress, DiBona answered in the negative, explaining that Google Earth relied on Qt and GL libraries and code, so additional WINE support would not help. No timeline for that application’s release was revealed at this time.”

If these applications are succesful, Google will port other programs: Google Talk, SketchUp or maybe even Google Desktop…. Source: googlesystem.blogspot.com

[tags]google,linux,earth,dibona[/tags]