Dung Fly.
Posted on 05/26/2006 7:54:42 AM PDT by N3WBI3
Picasa is a photo organizing and editing tool from Google that does most of what most people need to do with their digital pictures. Now Picasa, previously a Windows-only program, has binaries available for most popular GNU/Linux distributions. The Linux version of Picasa is still a beta release, but it's ready to handle photo storage, organizing, and light photo editing on your Linux computer.
Even if you don't want to use Picasa, Google's creation of the Linux version may help make your Linux computer more versatile. The Picasa Linux port is being made with Wine, and in the process more than 100 patches are being contributed back to the community.
Google spokesperson Chris DiBona says, "At the end of this, a lot of people will be able to use Wine who weren't able to before."
Google hired CodeWeavers to do much of the work needed to get Picasa to run on Linux with Wine, but long-time Wine community contributor Dan Kegel also helped; he works for Google.
According to DiBona, the Picasa Linux beta release currently lacks these features:
* CD Burning * TiVo Export * Support for languages other than English * Hello™ instant picture chat
Picasa does not work with SELinux due to problems with camera recognition caused by SELinux's security features.
DiBona cautions all downloaders: "This is a beta version. We're expecting bugs." But he also says that, except for the features specifically noted as not working, this is a fully-functional program, ready for everyday use.
And again, even if you have no interest in Picasa, it looks like even those of us who haven't tried Wine in a while should start keeping an eye on it again. The Google-contributed code may mean a whole new level of functionality for anyone who must use "Windows-only" software but wants to run nothing but GNU/Linux on his or her PC.
Picasa is available here for these GNU/Linux distributions:
* Debian Sid and Etch * Fedora Core 4 and 5 * Mandriva 2005 and 2006 * Red Hat (current versions) * Linspire 5.0 * SUSE 9.3 and 10 * Ubuntu 5.x
You shouldn't use the big words if you can't spell them. It highlights your stupidity.
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I think so
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Engineers aren't great spellers, so what, you're still too scared to dare venture into the technical discussion as usual. Go ahead and make your usual crybaby ping to the moderator, so we can get that out the way too LOL.
Whatever floats your boat there Chester.
You're the techie thread laughingstock, one of a small cast of FR moonbats, like the "real estate bubble" moonbat and the goldbuggery moonbat, and the now departed "windmills good nukes evil" moonbat. Your "moonbattery" defines you.
Fact is, I read techie threads to learn. When I don't know enough about a particular topic, I read and learn. You seem to be insinuating this is some kind of character flaw ("too scared"), but that would be the twisted view of someone who deems it better to plow headlong into threads regardless of your skill level, lying and bullshitting and trolling his way into the Moonbat Hall of Fame.
I don't care a rip about the ridiculous argument you started. I'm just pointing out that you have a shallow existence, waiting around for an OSS thread so that you can disrupt it. You are a FR dung fly.
LOL who said it did? It emulates Windows, obviously.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You can't "emulate" an operating system. Think of the word "emulation" as being the same thing as "translating" from english to french. Pentiums "speak" x86 and older style macs "speak" PPC, for example.
You *CAN* however get binaries from another operating system to run on your operating system. Yes, it's a translation layer, but to call it emulation is pretty much a bastardization of the word.
Well tonight, you learned about "software emulation". Take your time and try to explain it to renuzit on stout why don't you.
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They're emulating the Windows host API obviously. You guys are pathetic! Now down to enlarging your fonts LMAO!
Dung Fly.
Must be another liberal arts major. BS is all they are good at, they even keep pictures of it around.
Your credibility is just too low for me to learn much of anything from you. Shrill rhetoric and very little useful information have driven your signal-to-noise ratio into the dirt.
Sorry dung fly, I'm a productive member of society. College is for my kids. Go ahead and excrete whatever inane comments you care to now. I won't see them for a few days. I have a life to live.
Nah I only question it when your English is so bad it becomes obvious it's not your native language. Looks like I'm not the only one.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1638545/posts?page=290#290
...and even older style Macs speak 68k...8^)
It's fun to occasionally run System 7.5.5 on my Linux box...
Do you not understand--or are you really that dopey?
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