Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 5th May 2009 22:04 UTC
Many Linux users have experience with Wine, the application compatibility layer which allows some Windows programs to run on UNIX-like machines. During Ubuntu's Open Week event, Mark Shuttleworth was asked about Wine, and how important he believes it is for the success of Ubuntu.
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RE[2]: Wine and the Killer App
by Tomasz Dominikowski on Tue 5th May 2009 23:08
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RE[3]: Wine and the Killer App
by aitvo on Tue 5th May 2009 23:13
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RE[3]: Wine and the Killer App
by shiny on Tue 5th May 2009 23:17
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It is true that Picasa uses Wine, but Google Earth uses Qt, doesn't it?
Yes it does. God, why do people keep forgetting that?
Either GE's performance is really bad, or Wine is much snappier than most of people think.
Or it could be that fugly Win theme in statically linked Qt.
Anyway, it's still a very much native app.
RE[2]: Wine and the Killer App
by spikeb on Wed 6th May 2009 03:33
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RE[3]: Wine and the Killer App
by lemur2 on Wed 6th May 2009 03:52
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picasa for linux _sucked_ last time i used it
In general, if you can identify a suitable application which is native to Linux, and even better one which is native to the Linux desktop you are using, then your experience will be much better.
http://www.digikam.org/drupal/about/overview
http://www.digikam.org/drupal/about/features9x
http://www.digikam.org/node/326
http://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/2606908095/sizes/o/
( http://www.kipi-plugins.org/drupal/ http://www.kipi-plugins.org/drupal/node/14 )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiKam
Edited 2009-05-06 04:02 UTC
RE[3]: Wine and the Killer App - fixed it for you
by jabbotts on Wed 6th May 2009 16:38
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"picasa ... _sucked_ last time i used it"
Hehe.. sorry, I couldn't resist.
Picasa is pretty but Acdsee classic still blows it away for managing images. Other's like Picasa and that's fine but it doesn't let me manage the file naming and directory structure unless it's been changed recently.
But yes, Picasa bundles or installs Wine as a dependency; uncompress the tar.gz, run picasa.sh and the GUI app is up.
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Picasa, Google Earth.