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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. Native? by colourmyeyes · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As TFA says, Picasa for Linux wasn't native, just a Windows version repackaged with Wine. I hope the new stuff isn't like that.

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    1. Re:Native? by yincrash · · Score: 5, Interesting

      should they be writing picasa fom scratch? the wine versions help the wine project by submitting patches bringing more win32 apps usable to linux making linux a more and more appealing option.

  2. Give us gtalk on linux already! by LingNoi · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Gtalk with all the features available that the windows version has, such as chat logging and voicemail support. If there was ever going to be a killer app this would be it.