On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 12:05, Tim wrote: > Tim: > >> I've read good and bad. It's not *really* Picasa for Linux, it's Picasa > >> for Windows used *through* WINE. That may be a problem for some people. > > Les Mikesell: > > How are the wine libraries different from any others in that > > respect? > > If you were already playing with Wine, probably not an issue. If you > didn't use Wine, and didn't want to, then it might be a bit of a > surprise that something allegedly *for* Linux, isn't, and it might be a > bit of an extra drag on your system. > > For instance, previously I've tried using a couple of Windows programs > through Wine, and it was a terribly slow and painful thing to attempt. > Yet the PC was more than capable of runing native applications quite > well. The download includes a picassa-specific version of wine so there is an extra few MB of overhead until the fixes make it into the mainstream version. http://picasa.google.com/linux/learn_more.html -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
