Google is funding CodeWeavers’ Wine project to boost support of Photoshop on Linux so as to ensure the Windows version of Adobe Photoshop and other Creative Suite software can run on Linux computers.

For the project, Google is funding programmers at CodeWeavers, a company whose open-source Wine software lets Windows software run on Linux. Wine is a compatibility layer that intercepts a program’s Windows commands and converts them to instructions for the Linux kernel and its graphics subsystem.


“We hired CodeWeavers to make Photoshop CS and CS2 work better under Wine,” Dan Kegel, of Google’s software engineering team and the Wine 1.0 release manager, said on Google’s open-source blog. “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…We look forward to further improvements in this area.”

Google already uses Wine for the Linux version of its Picasa software for editing, tagging, and uploading photos.


Source: CNET Via DV Hardware

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