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- ShogunWarPig, on 12/10/2007, -12/+46Just run the full windows version under wine. Its has all the features and for me worked better than the so called "linux" version.
PS: Google we want NATIVE picasa not a shoddy wine workaround. - Mejogid, on 12/10/2007, -3/+31I think you're being overly harsh on google here. It's thanks to a great deal of patches they submitted to wine that picasa even runs under it, and at least they support it and provide what is effectively a known working and packaged bundle. It's not ideal, but unless they rewrite a good portion of the code in the future and can make it more effectively crossplatform, the cost/benefit simply doesn't lie in favour of a 'native' linux port.
- jeffchuck, on 12/10/2007, -1/+15iPhoto is slower, harder to use, and has less features than Picasa. Aperture costs several hundred dollars.
I want Picasa! - hlcno, on 12/10/2007, -8/+21os x?
- TheBigBrother, on 12/10/2007, -1/+14I already have Picasa on my ubuntu desktop,
But I would really appreciate it on OS X with FrontRow inegration because I hate having to pay $80 each time a new iLife comes out to get all the features. . .
(I'm stuck at 05 without proper image tagging or metadata management) - buckrogers1965, on 12/10/2007, -0/+12The resources? People work on WINE as an open source project for their own purposes. They are not "resources" that you can direct to another place.
- ldog, on 12/10/2007, -1/+13Google submitted over a hundred patches for picasa back in May 06. Not sure how many this time, but the cool thing is that it benefits more than just picasa.
A native port of one app would be nice, but since I don't even use picasa that often, I'd rather have a couple hundred patches to wine. - solarisom, on 12/10/2007, -1/+12I like that Picasa tracks changes I make to picture folders, why can't iPhoto do that?
- andrewtheart, on 12/10/2007, -1/+11He's right - Windows nerds are the LAN geeks with their full array of native games to select from and waste hours pointlessly playing on.
Linux users are too busy actually being productive. After the initial learning curve, they are producing multi-platform applications to make every user's life easier or maintaining/adding new features to existing open source apps to make the software world a better place.
Digg-- - KarmasAgent, on 12/10/2007, -2/+12You are such an idiot tedhead. /insult
its the windows lamers that do the LAN parties... and those same RPG fanboys that hit up the anime conventions.../truth
Linux users dont 'party' - we spend too much time configuring our systems to look like windows or os x - schestowitz, on 12/10/2007, -7/+17They acquired the company which used the 'wrong' tools to build this application. They would need to rewrite. Take another acquisition (KeyHole) for example and be aware that 'Google Earth' has always been OGL+QT, making a native port trivial.
'tleast this work on Picasa brings good patches to Wine.
In conclusion, it's better to just buy companies whose software is build not for just one platform. And yes, Google is like Microsoft in that respect. It **buys** more 'innovation' than it creates. And they are typically proprietary. - Athens101, on 12/10/2007, -2/+11Should have a look @ http://www.digikam.org/ it's OSS and native and surprisingly "good"
- Peepsalot, on 12/10/2007, -0/+6I just wish they would release a version of Sketchup for Linux
- captainpete, on 12/10/2007, -0/+6But this one links to a blog!
- natenovs, on 12/10/2007, -1/+6something free?
- spectre_25gt, on 12/10/2007, -0/+5Lightroom is $300.00 just like Aperture.
- Mais, on 12/10/2007, -1/+5Wrong, the games are the only things that work correctly.
- LocDawg, on 12/10/2007, -1/+5digikam is actually MUCH better.
- yeahbuddy, on 12/10/2007, -2/+6Still no Mac version, eh?
- TheBigBrother, on 12/10/2007, -1/+5sometimes
- arbulus, on 12/10/2007, -1/+4True, I do agree. However I believe that trying to look at Wine as the answer to Linux ports is not the right solution. People keep saying, "Just run the Windows version under Wine," and that's great if it works, but what about a native port of an app? How are development companies supposed to realize that Linux is a viable platform that people WANT ports for if people don't demand it and keep buying the Win versions? Are we just supposed to view Linux as a base where we can hack together apps from other OSes and hope that it works? Or do we really want to let developers know that Linux is a viable, growing and profitable arena for software developers and that there are people out there would would HAPPLIY spend the $1200 for a native linux port of Adobe's Creative Suite or Dreamweaver or AutoCAD? How about letting these devs know that we want a Linux port and we're not going to keep buying their apps until they can provide us with the tools we want.
All Wine does is say that Windows is the REAL platform and that Linux is just a hacked up piece of crap trying to run with the big boys. It really does degrade the community as a whole and puts the wrong message out there. - craigyjack, on 12/10/2007, -0/+3the biggest problem, almost the only problem, i have with iPhoto is the way it stores photos, and how it won't let you manage the storage of your own image files like picasa. i Photo sorts them in a really weird way that i hate and wont let me change it to a rational way that works for me. grrr
- ahirreddy, on 12/10/2007, -2/+5Yesssssss! It must be native now ... Damn.
- manfromfuture, on 12/10/2007, -0/+3Does a nice job with my crappy fuji .raf raw format. Not sure I would have noticed the other stuff...
- suppressingfire, on 12/10/2007, -0/+2Hmph... they haven't updated the package in the apt repository...
- ptFoe, on 12/10/2007, -2/+4F-Spot for the win
- rocket2dmn, on 12/10/2007, -0/+2I've been waiting so long for the web integration in linux!
- ptFoe, on 12/10/2007, -1/+3With Google and it's resources it shouldn't be hard to convert it.
- BlackCow, on 12/10/2007, -0/+2lets have photoshop for linux, that will be awesome.
- viruz, on 12/10/2007, -1/+2how about Lightroom? it's fairly cheap and surpasses picasa :)
- themoosejuice, on 12/10/2007, -2/+3What no osx?
- phoenixp3k, on 12/10/2007, -0/+1When I saw this story I though it would be great. but when I checked I was already running 2.7 for Linux for a few weeks now (it was a beta build then)
- ShogunWarPig, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1I'm really just saying it would serve as a good precedent to make such a good program run natively in other os's that are not windows. Shoddy was probably too harsh but disappointing fits.
- hlcno, on 12/10/2007, -1/+2hehe oh you gooses..
- jcronkhite, on 12/10/2007, -2/+3Yeah, a direct link to the source would really suck. Good point!
We are both being sarcastic, of course. Thanks for having my back captain! - alphakappa, on 12/10/2007, -0/+1I agree... after all these years, iPhoto has failed to deliver this very basic functionality - watch folders so that I dont have to remember to add pictures all the time. Seriously, what gives, Apple?
- crossers, on 07/19/2008, -0/+0one of new things. * Upload to Picasa Web Albums
Use the new "Web Album" button to post your best photos online to share with friends and family.
http://www.shpe-sac.org
http://www.ocflex.com/
http://www.trgovinca.org
http://www.chasr.org/ - lync, on 12/10/2007, -1/+1Still running on Wine. If Gogole can develop a native GTK Picasa client that would be very nice. Thanks for the news...
http://getir.net/9st - kaynesan, on 12/10/2007, -1/+1The only windows application I miss since switching to OSX.
- jcronkhite, on 12/10/2007, -10/+9I'm curious how you didn't see my originating post 1 day earlier than yours? I mean, you know you saw it, but you wanted to submit yours anyway. Good work. Here's the original:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/New_Picasa_2_7_Beta_for ...
Maybe 30 more people can post the same story so we can all digg them up as well. Like last week when there were a grip of stories about CompUSA closing. You suck. - secleinteer, on 12/10/2007, -5/+4Yeah go use your bundled applications and stop bitching about not getting support for an OS that obviously is in favor of a closed software ecosystem.
- TheFoppishRhino, on 12/10/2007, -4/+2I heartily agree. If Google doesn't come out with Picasa for OS X, I'm going to slit my iWrists and end my iLife.
- flatfish, on 12/10/2007, -6/+3IMHO Wine is a huge mistake. Take the resources trying to make wine work and put them to better use.
FWIW I have not run a single program under Wine that has run better than it does under Windows and it will always be that way.
What we need is native Linux versions of these programs, not Wine wannabes. - ToastPop, on 04/17/2009, -6/+1The Windows nerds have time to game, their OS already has the applications and features that are needed :)
- viruz, on 12/10/2007, -9/+2We have iPhoto and Aperture... who needs anything else?
- ToastPop, on 04/17/2009, -18/+10Now all the Linux nerds can organize all the photos from their LAN parties and anime conventions!
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