Less NFS stress with Google Earth
13 09 2007Got a home directory which is mounted via NFS (or CIFS, or…)? Still want to use Google Earth on Linux? Annoyed by the traffic caused by the cache pushed through the net (not to mention your quota)?
Well, here is a small script which applies KDE’s trick of moving the temp and cache to /tmp and /var/tmp, respectively. Also works with a setup like mine where /tmp is cleansed on each boot (because it is mounted as tmpfs). Just replace the symlink the setup creates in /usr/local/bin. And maybe adapt the BIN path to your setup.
Does anybody know how to contact the developers so they can include something like that in future?






Send me an email at mylastname@google with your proposal and I will open a bug against the Earth team.