Photo gallery recommendation?

[Les Mikesell]

On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 12:05, Tim wrote:
> Tim:
> >> I've read good and bad.  It's not *really* Picasa for Linux, it's Picasa
> >> for Windows used *through* WINE.  That may be a problem for some people.
> 
> Les Mikesell:
> > How are the wine libraries different from any others in that
> > respect?
> 
> If you were already playing with Wine, probably not an issue.  If you
> didn't use Wine, and didn't want to, then it might be a bit of a
> surprise that something allegedly *for* Linux, isn't, and it might be a
> bit of an extra drag on your system.
> 
> For instance, previously I've tried using a couple of Windows programs
> through Wine, and it was a terribly slow and painful thing to attempt.
> Yet the PC was more than capable of runing native applications quite
> well.

The download includes a picassa-specific version of wine so there
is an extra few MB of overhead until the fixes make it into the
mainstream version.

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

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  Les Mikesell
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