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Google just released Picasa for Linux. In case you haven't used it, Picasa is an advanced image archiving tool that also includes some basic photo manipulation features. Interestingly, there's some technical details available about how the Linux version came to be. The port was done using Wine and in the process over 200 patches were contributed back to the Wine project. The final product ships with a self-contained version of Wine and includes important features such as camera access using gPhoto. Dan Kegel sent an email to the wine-devel mailing list providing more details of this unique port. All of the patches have already been committed and you'll find coverage of some of the specific contributions in past issues of the Wine Weekly News.

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The news report over at Linux Today includes even more information, including news that Google Earth for Linux is planned as well.