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New Google Apps For Linux Coming

Posted by kdawson on from the bated-breath dept.

techoon writes "The goal of the Google Linux Client Team is to develop Linux desktop applications, such as the official Linux versions of Google Earth and Google Picasa. This team made an interesting splash during a presentation at the first-ever Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, which they had kindly hosted at their Mountain View campus. The Google presenters claimed some 'significant accomplishments' and other new Google desktop applications coming out this year for the Linux platform."

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  1. Re:Native? by colourmyeyes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This misses the point of Wine. Wine is for running applications that CANNOT be ported, e.g. commercial software like MS Office. Applications that can be ported, should. Otherwise, they pack their own version of Wine, and it can conflict with a version of Wine a user already has installed.

    A native Linux version of Picasa doesn't seem preposterous to me. Google's done it with Google Earth.

    Using hacks like Wine (a great hack, but still a hack) to run applications on Linux makes it less appealing to me than running native software.

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