Picasa on Linux

In May Linux Journal was the first publication to learn that Google planned to introduce a Linux version of Picasa, the company's digital photo management and sharing software. This is the first time Google has chosen Linux as the first additional platform for a formerly Windows-only product. In the past, Google has expanded first on Macintosh. Here's hoping that Google Earth and other originally Windows-only Google products will migrate to Linux as well. Google runs its massive search engine on Linux servers. While Google won't disclose how many servers they run, the company is widely regarded as the largest deployer of Linux in the world.

Picasa began as the product of a Pasadena, California company by the same name. Picasa was founded in October, 2001. Google bought the company in May, 2004.