Comments on: Google Desktop goes Linux

Company releases Linux version of desktop search software, which simultaneously scans the Web and computer-stored data for results.

[anarchyreigns]

'Bout time! Thanks G-Men.

Ubuntu anyone?
http://www.ubuntu.com

[chrisfrary]

natively

about time they make google earth native and not have wine binaries included. Promote Linux by natives not by emulation.

[rent-a-cluster]

WINE

WINE Is Not Emulation

[jsmith1785]

It is native

You're mistaken, Google Earth is a native Linux app developed using Qt libraries. Picasa is the program that uses WINE to make it run on Linux.

And yes, I agree completely, apps should not be ported using WINE, but wrote as native applications instead.

[Ted Miller]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

Crapware is entering where it ought not!

[qwerty75]

No thanks

I prefer to keep spyware where it belongs: on windows!

[frantaylor]

Correction!

Instead of saying 'only users with x86 processors', you should say 'users witb x86 compatible processors'. An AMD Opteron processor is not an x86 processor, but it will run x86 code.

If you have an AMD 64-bit processor, you must run a 32-bit x86 compatible browser in order to view Flash or Java content. And it works great!

[anarchyreigns]

Correction, to you! An Opteron is absolutely an x86 prosessor.

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