Google Releases Picasa for Linux

chrisd writes "Hi, everyone. Today I'm pleased to announce that we're making Picasa, our photo management application, available for Linux. This is a pre-beta labs release and since we're still learning on how to best make software for Linux, we're asking that you submit your bugs as you find them. Picasa for Linux uses Wine internally; this shows a bit in the interface, but it works even better than we had hoped. Download it and check it out! A list of supported distributions can be found in the FAQ. We hope our patches to Wine will help make it easier for everyone to run Windows apps on Linux and other Unix-like systems. Thanks to our pals at CodeWeavers who did much of the heavy lifting, and to Marcus Meissner, whose libgphoto support patch was a welcome surprise."

Re:wow

[Ithika]

It's okay, we've already got plenty of pre-beta software. Have you seen SourceForge lately? Thanks. :o)

I found a bug already!

[Hektor_Troy]

First of all, http://picasa.google.com/linux/faq.html [google.com] doesn't exist.

Didn't really get any further than that.

Glorious

[sunilhari]

Step 1 - announce software
Step 2 - make all your links to software dead
Step 3 - Profit?

Re:Glorious

[0110011001110101]

imagine a beowulf cluster of these dead links... we will be millionaires! Sign me up for your newsletter!

Nooooo!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Now we'll never see a navite port! Linux is going to die!

Google slashdotted?

[ISoldMyLowIdOnEbay]

Is it me or has Gooogle disappeared? Wouldn't have thought that the 3 linux users starting a download could have caused that... :-)

Re:not free

[jkrise]

Don't forget about F-Spot for us GNOME users.

No thanks... I'd rather wait a while till the product reaches the G-Spot!

Geez...

[Chris Pimlott]

Would you like some Picasa with that whine?

Re:All very well, but...

[mshiltonj]

Why announce a fairly standard application on /.? Surely Freshmeat would be a better forum?

Because it's from GOOGLE.

Slashdot:
News about Google. Stuff about Google that matters. Google, Google. Google.

Re:story title wrong.

[jim_v2000]

Google, you want to gain the everlasting love of the linux people?

Yeah, Google wants the love of all five of them.

Fixed in CVS

[Riddles]

It's been fixed in CVS [slashdot.org].

Eeep!

[baadger]

Well this is [tinypic.com] one of the scariest things i've ever had to witness on my process list in recent times...

Re:Mac commercials

[Anonymous Coward]

I've used iPhoto. I used my friend's laptop for 5 minutes and in that time I was able how to figure out how to use OSX (it was my first time on it ever), figure out how to open iPhoto, find naked pictures of his girlfriend and copy them to my computer over SMB. That didn't work in my friend's favour, but damn it was intuitive.

Re:Eeep!

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't worry - you're safe... it's asleep. ... ..

Just don't wake it up! :-o

While the joke is funny and all

[drachenstern]

It might be just over the average slashdotters head, or at least a little more than their personal experience would allow for.

Hope you get mod points and all

(actually, I'm the one karma whoring...)

Re:MOD PARENT DOWN!!! (apparantly)

[Andrew Kismet]

Damage control.

Re:Only the winers.

[carou]

Someone else just posted:
Software developers are really in a bind with Linux. If you don't create software for Linux, Linux people whine that you are not supporting them. Create software for Linux, Linux people whine that its not open source.

I guess they didn't count on comments like yours.

"Create open source software for Linux, Linux people whine that it's not the right kind of project".

Re:not free

[DragonWriter]

The port was done using Wine and in the process over 200 patches were contributed back to the Wine project.

This is impossible. Steve Ballmer just told me that if a company touches something open source, like Wine, then all their software must be open source. Thats the way The License works, he said.