Google contributes more code to WINE
With the recent release of Picasa 3 Beta for Linux, Google has contributed more code to the WINE project.
WINE is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of Linux (and other Unix-like operating systems). It can be thought of as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs on Linux. WINE does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code. With WINE you can run such programs as Microsoft Office and games like Counter Strike on your Linux machine.
Another popular application is Adobe’s Photoshop CS2 and here Google has been very active.
In January 2006, Google (working with CodeWeavers the commerical arm of the WINE project) improved WINE so Picasa 2.2 would run. This effort resulted in 225 patches committed to the WINE project.
Their work continued in 2007, committing a few dozen patches and they also worked again with CodeWeavers to improve Wine so it could run Photoshop CS2 properly. As a result, about 200 patches were committed to the WINE project.
To get Picasa 3 working on Linux, Google has continued to submit fixes to WINE.
Picasa 3 works great on Linux and I think Google and CodeWeavers need a big Hats Off.
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Nice! Google’s contributions have definitely helped the project come a long way. It’s only a matter of time before WINE becomes a household name.
codeweavers is not the commercial arm of the wine project.
Makes perfect sense to me.
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Google continues to help with the development of making Linux usable for everyone, i am so happy to be involved in the Linux community. To watch how it has grown and continues to do so.