opensource.google.com

Menu

Google Sponsors Wine Improvements

Thursday, February 14, 2008



As you may know, Google uses Wine to implement Linux support for Picasa. Beyond that, Google has been supporting Wine in several other ways.

Perhaps the biggest news is that we hired Codeweavers to make Photoshop CS and CS2 work better under Wine. Photoshop is one of those applications that Desktop linux users are constantly clamoring for, and we're happy to say they work pretty well now. Perhaps not coincidentally, apps like Flash 8 are now starting to work in Wine, too. We look forward to further improvements in this area.

For more about what we've been doing, see my post to wine-devel and/or visit our list of Google Wine patches.

Share and enjoy!
.