Google Windows Apps Coming To Linux

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday February 14, 2006 @12:26AM from the google's-root-getting-stronger dept.

skaet writes "DesktopLinux.com reports that Google is working together with CodeWeavers to bring their photo editing and sharing program Picasa, formerly only available on Windows, over to Linux. From the article: 'The program is now in a limited beta test. If this program is successful, other Google applications will be following it to the Linux desktop, sources say. The Linux Picasa implementation includes the full feature set of the Windows Picasa 2.x software. It is not, strictly speaking, a port of Picasa to Linux. Instead, Linux Picasa combines Windows Picasa code and Wine technology to run Windows Picasa on Linux. This, however, will be transparent to Linux users, when they download, install, and run the free program on their systems.'"

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Google and "limited beta"? by Opportunist · 2006-02-14 00:37 · Score: 4, Funny

Does this mean every Beta-Tester gets like 5000 invites, and everyone they invite gets another 5000?

Btw, anyone want a GMail account?

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Re:Wine Source Code Patching by Bill+Hayden · 2006-02-14 02:47 · Score: 5, Funny

There should be a Wine expert along shortly to point out the gross over-simplification in what I've just said ;-)
I am a WINE expert, and that was a gross-oversimplification.

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