Google's Picasa Released for Linux

I couldn't decide where this should be posted. It's news about a popular image editor. But, this kind of thing doesn't seem to fit just right in any of the forum categories.

I consider the effort Google made to be significant, since they are likely to be a thorn in Microsoft's side in the future, and it looks like they're going to try and make some of their software available to Linux users, too (even if it's only via Wine in this case).

Anyway, Google has now released Picasa for Linux. It's been in beta for a while now. This February 2006 article discussed it (they apparently incorporated a run time version of Codeweaver's Cross-Over Office implementation of Wine):

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1926385,00.asp

Here is an article mentioning it's release (no longer in beta):

http://slashdot.org/articles/06/05/26/0310229.shtml

Information and Download Link:

http://picasa.google.com/linux/

I use Picasa very often under XP. It supports raw files from my camera, allows fast browsing through images, and does little things like straightening my crooked horizons quickly.

It's not as powerful as many editors, but it's very simply to use and is one more tool in a software arsenal for those that do a lot of work with images.