However, such companies are now ensuring that their free versions of softwares are available for Linux. One classic example of this is Adobe Acrobat Reader. The company is not offering their proprietary softwares like photoshop for Linux, but they are surely offering their Reader (free software) for download on Linux.

Following this trend, Google which is a great advocate of Open Source is planning to target their products for Linux. Picasa 3 beta is a move towards this direction. So, I tried my hands on the Linux version of Picasa and I am really impressed because they are providing all the features in this version as they have for Windows.

Because of this now I am even closer to taking off Windows Vista completely from my laptop and only use Linux. The installation is as easy as it can get with the debian package manager. Of course deb will only work for debian based Linux like Ubuntu. It’s like installing Picasa using an exe file. In order to install Picasa on your Ubuntu (or other deb based Linux distro) follow the steps below.

1. Download deb package of Picasa here.
2. Just Double click the picasa_2.7.3736-15_i386 deb and you are good to install the package.

Launching Picasa
In order to launch Picasa go to Applications–>Graphics–>Picasa–>Picasa. It looks something like this:

Now you can enjoy your favorite picasa in Linux as well.