Friday, October 3, 2008

Google's Picasa for Linux catches up to Windows

Google has brought to Linux the beta version of its new Picasa 3 software for image editing, cataloging, and uploading.
The software runs using Wine and an open-source software layer that translates a program's Windows instructions into commands for Linux instead. Google has contributed about 850 patches to the Wine project so far this year, Google said. Better video support in Wine is still a work in progress, though, which is why the movie maker feature is disabled.

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