picasa.google.com— Goggle is further embracing the open-source community by developing one of their most popular applications, the Picasa picture organizer, for the Linux platform. Way to go Google!
May 26, 2006View in Crawl 4
As a end-user, I:- Have a linux box (Fedora Core 4)- downloaded the picasa rpm- Install it- Run itTherefore, if the whole packaging let's me run it under my distro, it should be enough to be called a "linux version". Runs flawlessly btw.
"i actually see this a slap in the face to linux users. I actually hate it more when vendors "release" software for "free" under linux, yet refuse to open source it. Then everyone talks about how they reach out to open source and "embrace the community". beh, this is just like java."I don't see it as a slap in the face. Hey, not everything can or should be opensource. When Doom 3 was released for Linux, did you piss and moan that the source code wasn't made available? It's whining like this that keeps more developers away from Linux, which cripples it in the long run.I love the opensource philosophy, and I think more should be done with it. But if Linux wants to thrive, it has to welcome proprietary software into the fold as well. Imagine if Adobe were to release Photoshop for Linux.. what a coup that would be. I doubt anyone would bitch that they didn't release the source code.In the case of Google releasing Picasa for Linux, I think it's a VERY good thing. I'm no fan of the actual software, but in releasing it they created over 200 patches for Wine. Having Google contribute to Wine like that can't be seen as anything but positive in the long run, as Google has the resources that nobody in the opensource world has.
mrspontaneousMay 26, 2006
"btw i thought there were more of us then there were of the linux users anyway!"nope. Linux is ranked second in terms of market share.
jzimmermanMay 26, 2006
W.I.N.E. = Wine Is Not an Emulator<a class="user" href="http://winehq.com/">http://winehq.com/</a>
bjurrMay 26, 2006
As a end-user, I:- Have a linux box (Fedora Core 4)- downloaded the picasa rpm- Install it- Run itTherefore, if the whole packaging let's me run it under my distro, it should be enough to be called a "linux version". Runs flawlessly btw.
myleftfootMay 27, 2006
Sweet Google! Keep on porting stuff over. I'll use it all! And don't forget my Mac friends too. :-)
ragzoukenMay 27, 2006
"Google is the largest data mining operation on planet and no one escapes the evil grasp of Google."Unless they have robots.txt maybe?
anjinashMay 27, 2006
"i actually see this a slap in the face to linux users. I actually hate it more when vendors "release" software for "free" under linux, yet refuse to open source it. Then everyone talks about how they reach out to open source and "embrace the community". beh, this is just like java."I don't see it as a slap in the face. Hey, not everything can or should be opensource. When Doom 3 was released for Linux, did you piss and moan that the source code wasn't made available? It's whining like this that keeps more developers away from Linux, which cripples it in the long run.I love the opensource philosophy, and I think more should be done with it. But if Linux wants to thrive, it has to welcome proprietary software into the fold as well. Imagine if Adobe were to release Photoshop for Linux.. what a coup that would be. I doubt anyone would bitch that they didn't release the source code.In the case of Google releasing Picasa for Linux, I think it's a VERY good thing. I'm no fan of the actual software, but in releasing it they created over 200 patches for Wine. Having Google contribute to Wine like that can't be seen as anything but positive in the long run, as Google has the resources that nobody in the opensource world has.
firstlastMay 28, 2006
Worked fine for me too. Also try this <a class="user" href="http://www.kanzelsberger.com">http://www.kanzelsberger.com</a> and you'll find out that Linux is a good thing with right tools.
trekerboyMar 15, 2007
I posted about how to run Picasa 2 within OSX. Hopefully all those searching through google for a solution to this problem find this helpful:<a class="user" href="http://trekerboy.blogspot.com/">http://trekerboy.blogspot.com/</a>