Google to Port Picasa to Linux
By Alexander Grundner |
February 14th, 2006
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In what some might consider good news today, Google and CodeWeavers are working on porting the company’s photo editing app, Picasa, to the Linux platform. Of course, the background technology enbabling this is WINE, a compatibility layer technology that allows Windows applications, including their DLL files, to run on open-source operating systems like Linux. There’s also rumors that if the initial port works out well, Google is open to bringing some of their other popular Windows native applications to Linux in the future.
My take: That’s all well and good, and, sure, Linux users would be happy to add Picasa to their already large library of photo editing apps, but what’s really needed here is for companies like Google to start creating cross-platform apps like Mozilla has done with Firefox, or build native applications for the Linux OS for platform stability since WINE isn’t a fool-proof solution. I say, go cross-platform from here on out, Google.
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