Clueful Ones, Perhaps this is not new to everyone, butI had not heard this before, until I stumbled across a review on the Linux Pro web site: http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/81 Google Earth is now available (and FREE) for linux. http://earth.google.com I am running it on an AMD64 under kubuntu feisty (32-bit) and it is incredible. -- aloha, dave