Google Releases Picaso for Linux

While this might seem like a pretty minor announcement, what makes this announcement newsworthy is the approach that Google took to port it to Linux. The Picasa Linux port was made with Wine and generated over 100 patches to Wine itself. So in other words Wine got extended in order to quickly move Picasa to Linux. This seems to be a back ended way to help Linux run Windows applications withou immediately raising the ire (or attention) of Microsoft. With a 100 patches to WINE, it takes a longish step in enabling Linux users to run Windows applications without the hassle of running the OS our Redmond.