* SkyWatcher <[email protected]> [03-01-10 19:15]: > My organization went ahead and installed Picasa 3.0 for Linux > after I wrote them a nice letter explaining why the software is so > useful. It works beautifully! I hope Google will continue supporting > Picasa on linux, either on Wine or standalone. The important thing is > to have a local installation (not cloud-based). I work for a national > research center that is highly concerned about security, so it would > also be important for the linux version to be patched when security > issues arise. Does the current version get updates/patches?
You have already answered your question, yourself. 3.0 is the latest version designated "linux" available. But you must remember that the "linux" versions of picasaX were all windows versions with a tweaked wine provided (perhaps the windows versions were also "tweaked"...). > If people see that Picasa for Linux will stick around, I'm pretty sure it > will start to gain greater adoption from the scientific community - it is > just a fantastic way to organize image-based data. I have installed, 3.6 for windows via wine but the install now reports it is a linux version, go figure. I may be wrong, but I do not see resources being allocated for "linux" as long as the windows versions function reasonably well via wine installs. I would go ahead and install the 3.6 version with wine. It is much more advanced than the 3.0 provided with the "linux" label, with no loss of functionality that I can see or affects my routine. ymmv :^). -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-labs-picasa-for-linux?hl=en.
