Google Windows apps coming to Linux

[kks_krishna]

font face="Arial,Helvetica" size="3"Hi,brbrGoogle and CodeWeavers Inc. are working together to bring Google's popular Windows a href="http://picasa.google.com/" target="new"uPicasa/u/aphoto editing and sharing program to Linux. The program is now in alimited beta test. If this program is successful, other Googleapplications will be following it to the Linux desktop. /fontfont face="Arial,Helvetica" size="3"Another popular Google Windows program is also coming over to Linux: the a href="http://talk.google.com]uGoogle Talk client/u/a. /fontfont face="Arial,Helvetica" size="3"br/fontfont face="Arial,Helvetica" size="3"While no further information was forthcoming on this project, it is worth noting that Google hired a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1872058,00.asp" target="new"uSean Egan/u/a, the lead developer of the popular open-source IM client a href="http://gaim.sourceforge.net/" target="new"uGAIM/u/a in October 2005. GAIM, itself, already supports the Jabber protocol, which Google Talk uses, and can be a href="http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=24073" target="new"uconfigured to work with Google Talk/u/a./fontbr

[zima]

Hmmm...if CodeWeavers is into this, those won't be native Linux ports - just something like Corel once did with one version of Wordperfect. Not a good thing IMHO...besides there mostly exist equivalents already.

BTW, link?