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August 5th, 2009: Datamation / Bruce Byfield: Will Geolocation Find a Home on Linux Desktops? |
Bruce Byfield takes a look at the state of Geolocalization on the Linux Desktop in his article Will Geolocation Find a Home on Linux Desktops?. Marble is prominently mentioned.
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August 4th, 2009: Marble 0.8 released with KDE 4.3 |
As a part of KDE 4.3 a new version of Marble got released today. This release features Online Service plugins, a lot of polish and much work under the hood. See our Visual ChangeLog for more details.
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August 2nd, 2009: GCDS 2009 - Slides and Videos of the Marble presentation at Gran Canaria Desktop Summit 2009 are now available |
| At the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit 2009 Marble was demoed during a 30-min presentation. The slides of this presentation are now available. Additionally there is a Video on YouTube which has the first ten minutes. The full OGV-video can be downloaded here. The video is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0. Credits go to the GCDS team which did a terrific job and made this event a full success. Enjoy! |
August 1st, 2009: Dedoimedo 08/2009 - Marble is a polished jewel |
| Dedoimedo - a site dedicated to computer education - reviews Marble and concludes: "Marble is a spectacular piece of software. It is beautiful, thorough, detailed, well laid out, fast, robust, and responsive. [...] It also seems like an excellent tool for teaching people (and kids) the wonders of our Planet in a fun and exciting way. I wish I had something like this when I was growing up!" |
March 5th, 2009: Marble 0.7.1 released with KDE 4.2.1 |
| Marble 0.7.1 is the first bugfix release of Marble 0.7. At the begin of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 this Marble release features support for other planets and offers map data for the Moon, Mars and Venus. Additionally Marble 0.7 comes with an impressive historic map and improved KML support.
For more information have a look at our Visual ChangeLog for Marble 0.7.
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October 1st, 2008: Free Software Magazine 10/2008 - OpenStreetMaps: free software's answer to Google and commercially-restricted geo-data |
| Gary Richmond writes in the Free Software Magazine about OpenStreetMap and mentions Marble: "Inevitably, it was only a matter of time before the GNU/Linux community got its mitts on OSM and started to look at ways of integrating it into KDE. Yes, of course, Google Earth and Google Maps are available and they are pretty good but if, like the Free software Foundation(FSF), you believe that it is not possible to draw computer users away from proprietary software if there are no free, non-DRM alternatives you’ll be glad to hear that Marble, a Virtual Globe and World Atlas is an alternative." |
August 11th, 2008: Linux.com 8/2008: Marble provides basic engine for free Google Earth replacement |
| In this nice review Bruce Byfield takes a good look at KDE 4.1's Marble 0.6 and suggests that "The Free Software Foundation can cross off another item on its high priority list of applications that free software needs in order to compete. Version 0.6 of Marble, which ships with KDE 4.1, may not rival Google Earth just yet, but the underlying engine has the potential to do so in future versions. The main improvements needed to reach this stage are a lower level of detail and some additional views and integration into free online resources.". Later on he puts his praises into perspective by adding "Marble is unlikely to rival Google Earth in certain areas. It is unlikely, for example, to offer continually updated satellite views or street images any time in the immediate future. However, by the time Marble reaches its 1.0 release, there seems no reason why it could not equal Google's efforts on a more practical level."
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