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By Elinor Mills
Posted on ZDNet News: Jun 28, 2007 12:00:00 AM

Google was set to launch late on Wednesday a beta version of Google Desktop search for Linux in a sign of encouragement by the search giant for Linux on the desktop.

Google Desktop allows people to search the Web while also searching the full text of all the information on their computer, including Gmail and their Web search history. Because the index is stored locally on the computer, users can access Gmail and Web history while offline.

Google Desktop for Linux was written natively and uses Google's own desktop search algorithms, not existing Linux search applications such as Beagle, a company representative said. Only computers with x86 processors can use the software. It supports the Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10, Novell Suse 10.1 and Red Hat 5 versions of Linux, and uses either the KDE and GNOME graphical user interfaces.

Although Google has released other projects as open-source software, where it can be freely modified and redistributed by anyone, Google Desktop for Linux is proprietary. The software was developed by Google's Beijing engineering team and is available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese.

Google also offers Linux versions of its Picasa photo-editing software, as well as Google Earth and Google Toolbar for Firefox.

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I am running 7.04 and Automatix has it. (Read the rest)
Posted by: ds_mart Posted on: 07/08/07 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
Does it run on Ubuntu 7.04?? Dell customers would like that.  DonnieBoy | 06/27/07
It works on Feisty  Tony Agudo | 06/27/07
Right, but I really do not want to go back to Feisty for just to try this.  DonnieBoy | 06/27/07
Is this different than....  Necrolin | 06/27/07
Slightly different  Tony Agudo | 06/27/07
Sure  ds_mart | 07/08/07
Google does cares about the end users  John Zern | 06/27/07
Google has lots of programers working on many different Free Software  DonnieBoy | 06/27/07
Well, I certainly hope that no one was ever stupid enough  James T. Kirk | 06/28/07
It would be individual distros  Michael Kelly | 06/28/07
"cron job" sounds so dirty....  James T. Kirk | 06/28/07
And Google probably would complain about Linux vendors  primary_key | 06/28/07
Again?  James T. Kirk | 06/28/07
Is this really great ?  mKind | 06/28/07
Even Google has to face the realities of the market and develop for Windows  DonnieBoy | 06/28/07
Re: Even Google has to face the realities  mKind | 06/28/07
You still have no choice but to make a version available for Windows.  DonnieBoy | 06/28/07
appreciation  reedjjjr | 06/29/07
So true  Boot_Agnostic | 06/28/07
Google will likely do like IBM, HP, and SUN, and NOT  DonnieBoy | 06/28/07
But Google isn't them  Boot_Agnostic | 06/29/07

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