Picasa for Linux 2.2.2820

Publisher's Description:

Picasa automatically finds and organizes all of your pictures including: jpeg, tiff, bmp, psd, and standard camera movie files. Sending pictures with e-mail used to mean five steps just to get it right. Picasa lets you pick the size and then automatically attaches your pictures. Browse through all your pictures and view slideshows of your albums with the click of a button. Enhance, fix red-eye, and even crop without losing data or permanently changing your original picture.

Picasa has the following other editions available: Picasa for Windows.

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Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	havas	May 30, 2006
Version:	2.2.2820
really nice but note a true linux version
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Reviewer:	fair_is_fair	May 27, 2006
Version:	2.2.2820
I know the die-hard linux gurus are upset because Picasa is not a true linux version. It uses Wine to run in linux. Personally, I don't care as long as it works. I have always found Picasa very handy in windows and this release just makes linux more attractive to me. I'm pleased.
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Reviewer:	Don Juan	May 27, 2006
Version:	2.2.2820
Wine is not an emulator, it is a kernel module that maps windows system calls to *nix system calls. Technically it's running natively in Linux. There is no room to argue that Wine causes a performance hit, because Cedega which is just a commercialized version of Wine runs windows games great, in many cases they even perform better than they do in windows. Here is a description of wine from the official web site www.winehq.com: Wine is a translation layer (a program loader) capable of running Windows applications on Linux and other POSIX compatible operating systems. Windows programs running in Wine act as native programs would, running without the performance or memory usage penalties of an emulator, with a similar look and feel to other applications on your desktop.
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Reviewer:	bcerhart	May 26, 2006
Version:	2.2.2820
Straight from the Google Blog, "And because it runs on a carefully tested version of Wine, Picasa avoids the slowing effects of an OS emulation or a virtual machine." Nice try but if you're going to release a Linux program, then don't make it require a Windows Emulator.
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