Google Releases Picasa for Linux

chrisd writes "Hi, everyone. Today I'm pleased to announce that we're making Picasa, our photo management application, available for Linux. This is a pre-beta labs release and since we're still learning on how to best make software for Linux, we're asking that you submit your bugs as you find them. Picasa for Linux uses Wine internally; this shows a bit in the interface, but it works even better than we had hoped. Download it and check it out! A list of supported distributions can be found in the FAQ. We hope our patches to Wine will help make it easier for everyone to run Windows apps on Linux and other Unix-like systems. Thanks to our pals at CodeWeavers who did much of the heavy lifting, and to Marcus Meissner, whose libgphoto support patch was a welcome surprise."

Comments

Re:What are you smoking?

[Danathar]

OK...let's say it would cost them $500,000 U.S.

Are you telling me that they linked against WineLib because they did'nt have the $$$ or people?! That's a pretty weak argument. Google is swimming in money and people are banging on the door to get in to work there.

Re:Possible motive?

[Randall311]

I think the words you were looking for are... So long as Linux uses shitty fonts, it's never gonna attain superiority as a better platform.

Again?

[hummassa]

it's relevant because in the process of using winelibs, google contributed over 200 patches to wine.

Re:MOD PARENT DOWN!!! (apparantly)

[scum-e-bag]

Forget about the Great Firewall of China.
It's now the Great Firewall of the USA.