I just read a story on Linux Today that Google was releasing a Linux version of their photo management tool Picasa. The Google Open Source Program Manager Chris DiBona contacted this site to elaborate on the news.According to DiBona, the port of Picasa to the Linux platform will not only give Linux users one more Google application for their general use, but this release will also assist other software developers in their port projects as well. The reason is that Picasa has not been ported, but relied on the WINE Project’s emulation technology. Well, that is a downturn, but there is also something cool with it as Goole has made “some pretty big additions to WINE.” These additions seems to already been given to the WINE Project, as they can be downloaded from the new WINE page at the code.google.com.The WINE Project has also posted a news update stating that Google had contributed over 200 patches back to the Wine project.