On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 22:45 -0600, Michael Moore wrote:
> Wheeeee!
> 
> http://picasa.google.com/linux/

Alas it bombs spectacularly on my Fedora Core 3 box.  I have a hunch it
is conflicting with my existing wine setup.  Also google neglected to
take into account the problems wine has with ulimits, but hacking their
wrapper script to do "ulimit -v unlimted" was an easy fix.

Ever since Corel's ill-fated Wordperfect for Linux venture, I've never
had much hope for any wine-wrapped "port."  Wine is just way to non-
deterministic.  Plus I've always had better luck with a system-wide wine
install and just install the windows apps into the wine environment.  I
already had picasa running on my work machine this way many months ago.

The laundry list of changes to wine to make Picasa run well (well,
better would be a more correct word) can be seen at
http://code.google.com/wine.html .  Unlike Corel, Google (and
Codeweavers) are contributing to the main branch of wine, so google
won't have to maintain a fork and cause problems for both wine and the
users.  Google does know how to get things right I think.

Now if they can only make picasa actually run on my machine.

Michael


> 
> I really like F-Spot, but it's good to see more options.
> 


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