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Picasa for LinuxI was taken a bit by surprise by Google's announcement today that it has released a pre-beta version of Picasa for Linux. Picasa for Linux runs on "a carefully tested version of Wine" (the not-an-emulator Windows emulator), and according to Google much of the work was done by CodeWeavers. In the process, they contributed over 200 patches to the Wine project. Almost everything from the Windows version of Picasa is present, with the exception of CD burning and video playback. You can read some implementation notes from Google's Dan Kegel on the Wine mailing list, or you can head straight to Google Labs for the download, which comes in RPM, Debian package, and self-extracting installer formats.

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