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Google's Picasa for Linux catches up to Windows
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Google's Picasa for Linux catches up to Windowsfrom Neowin Back Page News
Source: CNet
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Google has brought to Linux the beta version of its new Picasa 3 software for image editing, cataloging, and uploading.
Thenew release catches the open-source operating system up with Windows,which got the Picasa 3 beta one month earlier. There's still no wordabout a Mac OS X version, although Mike Horowitz, Google's Picasaproduct manager, told me earlier that "Macs are important to us...We'realways looking for new ways of making sure our users are happy, so it'ssomething we're looking at."
The new version adds a retouchingtool, automatic synchronization of photos on the PC with those storedat Google's Picasa Web site, and a collage mode that lets peoplecombine numerous snapshots into a poster-size collection, Googleprogrammer Lei Zhang said in a blog post announcing the new version.The new version also is faster, he added.
However, it does lackthe Windows version's movie maker feature that can turn photos into aslideshow with a soundtrack that can then be uploaded to YouTube.
Thesoftware runs using Wine and an open-source software layer thattranslates a program's Windows instructions into commands for Linuxinstead. Google has contributed about 850 patches to the Wine projectso far this year, Google said. Better video support in Wine is still awork in progress, though, which is why the movie maker feature isdisabled.
Headline sounds like good news for Linux users (and, in a way, I guess it is), but it isn't accurate.
It is not "for Linux", as it is just a Windows executable you use in wine. It also does not "catch up", since it lacks the movie feature.
It'snice that Google continues to contribute to the wine project, and worksto ensure that as many Windows apps as possible will "just run" on aLinux box by double-clicking it... But to say this is a product forLinux that catches up... |
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