With the successful launch of Google’s Picasa photo-editing application, Google Earth and Google Toolbar for Firefox on Linux platform, Google has launched a beta version of Google Desktop for Linux.

The Linux version of Google Desktop joins a fully complete Windows version released more than two years ago and a OS X version, currently in beta, which was introduced in April of this year.

As with the existing Windows and OS X version, Google Desktop for Linux enables linux users to search the Web, conduct full text search on files stored locally on the computer, including Gmail and their Web search history.

The first beta version will run only on computers with x86 processors. The application is available in several European languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It also supports many popular versions of Linux such as Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, Red Flag 5, SUSE 10.1 and Ubuntu 6.10.

However, the released lacks the Sidebar and the Gadget features present in the Windows version. The Sidebar is the vertical panel where the Gadgets (mini-applications) such as news, weather data, photos and email applications can be organized.

A Google representative disclosed that the Google Desktop for Linux was written natively. It uses Google’s own desktop search algorithms.

Users can download it for free from Google’s Web site.

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Entry was posted on Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 at 11:58 pm under Uncategorized.

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