Google Earth

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GoogleEarth works perfectly for me on SLED 11 x86_64, which is based on
OpenSUSE 11.1. I installed it just a week or so ago (previously had
version 4, now version 5) and it ran out of the box nicely.

64-bit Java also works for me, again on SLED. My wife runs 64-bit
OpenSUSE 11.1 on her box and it seems to be fine as well (not sure how
much she uses Java, really, but oh well).

Regarding "Internet Banking" I do not see how that is relevant. I've done
banking on multiple bank/credit union sites for years and never had a
problem at all. Websites use fairly standardized technologies ((X)HTML,
XML, CSS, ECMAScript/JavaScript, etc.) so all platforms should be fine.
In my own experience I use FireFox primarily and it has yet to find a site
it can't load properly unless it is laden with poo (ActiveX or similar)
and I really haven't even had that problem lately as standards-compliant
versions of most sites seem to be the norm these days.

If you have specific examples of issues you have seen, applications that
have failed, or things like that please post them but otherwise this does
not appear to be something specific enough for help.

Good luck.





ntovik wrote:
> It seems to me that the GoogleEarth.bin file works only for one specific
> distribution of Linux (Ubuntu?). I don't think that Linux will succeed
> in stealing marketplace from BIll Gates before programs can be installed
> in a more standard and user friendly way than now. The current thread is
> a symptom that something is very wrong now. Another example is the
> ongoing problems with Java browser plugins (64-bit in particular) and
> internet banking. Linux is fun if you like solving problems, but not if
> you like things to run out of the box.
>
> Regards
>
> Nils Tovik
>
>
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> It seems to me that the GoogleEarth.bin file works only for one specific
> distribution of Linux (Ubuntu?). I don't think that Linux will succeed
> in stealing marketplace from BIll Gates before programs can be installed
> in a more standard and user friendly way than now.

heh! who told you that you must use Ubuntu if you wanna run Google
Earth? i've been using it on Linux for YEARS!


> The current thread is
> a symptom that something is very wrong now. Another example is the
> ongoing problems with Java browser plugins (64-bit in particular) and
> internet banking.

heh! your name means to me that you might live in Scandinavia--an
otherwise GREAT area but unfortunate part of the world for banks
because they seem to have almost ALL elected to use Linux hostile java
apps...[it is almost like one guy figured out how to build a bank web
presence and then SOLD that way to every bank in Scandinavia...almost
every bank! sad indeed!]

but, i contacted my local Linux User Group and found a bank which had
a netbank usable by more than just M$ users (and, jumped from Den
Dansk Bank to Sydbank, in Denmark--problem solved!! AND they have
lower service charges)

try it yourself: http://www.linux.org/groups/


> Linux is fun if you like solving problems, but not if
> you like things to run out of the box.

the best thing that M$ runs out of the box is viruses, malware,
keyloggers, botnets and etc...

i save SO much time not buying, installing, tuning etc all the fences
and stuff required to not become a part of an M$ botnet, that i have
PLENTY of time to solve my own piddly little problems, and help others
once in a while also..

--
goldie
Give a hacker a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach man and you feed him for a lifetime.

ntovik adjusted his/her AFDB on Monday 10 Aug 2009 14:56 to write:

>Another example is the
> ongoing problems with Java browser plugins (64-bit in particular)

No problems here

> and
> internet banking


Should not use banks with cr&ppy lock in websites, my bank HSBC works fine
with every linux I have tried.

--
Mark
Caveat emptor
Nullus in verba
Nil illegitimi carborundum

Same is here.
I use I915GM with XAA acceleration.
Google Earth works even with compositor, but without better.


Google Earth 5.0.11733.9347
Build Date May 5, 2009
Build Time 1:47:18 am
Renderer OpenGL
Operating System Linux (2.6.27.25)
Video Driver Tungsten Graphics, Inc
Max Texture Size 2048x2048
Server kh.google.com

Thanks.