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."

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Since you are learning

[tokul]

"since we're still learning on how to best make software for Linux"

Then stop using wine for Linux programs.

We're still learning on how to best make software

[wysiwia]

Doesn't Google employees read Slashdot? I've multiple times told what I think is the best way to develop software albeit other might think different. Yet probably everybody agrees that wyoGuide (http://wyoguide.sf.net/) is by far better than Wine. wyoGuide is IMHO the only way how to do cross-platform development and the only way for OpenSource and ClosedSource. It seems to me that it's exactly perfectly suited for Google.

sh....

[drachenstern]

quit telling everybody about our paradise man!

Sheesh, we go to all the trouble of keeping knowledge about it secret, and here you are going off at the mouth about how great it is.















I mean, we even got plenty of rats and stuff! Shhhhh, or we'll make you go live in that A world!