Although friends who use Windows and Mac have used Google Earth to excavate "treasures" around the world, but for Linux users, they still have no chance to try such a fun tool software. However, if you go to Google Earth download page, I will guarantee that you will see a Linux version of the download connection next to Windows and Mac OS X download connections. Google released the Linux version of the LINUX version of the Google Earth is a Beta 4, and the latest version of Windows and Mac OS X remains synchronized. Linux version Google Earth uses a binary package, no open source code, Linux users run Google Earth official minimum recommendation is as follows: kernel: 2.4 or laterglibc: 2.3.2 w / nptl or laterxfree86-4.0 or x.org r6.7 OR laterCPU: Pentium 3, 500MhzSystem Memory (RAM): 128MBHard Disk: 400MB free spaceNetwork Speed: 128 Kbits / secScreen: 1024x768, 16 bit colorTested and works on the following OSs: Ubuntu 5.10Suse 10.1Fedora Core 5Linspire 5.1Gentoo 2006.0Debian 3.1Red Hat 9GOogle recently released a Linux version of Picasa (image management, processing software), but the use of the Wine simulator, and Google Earth's Linux version is a native Linux application, no emulator software. Google Earth Official Download Page: http://earth.igoogle.com/download-earth.html
