Picasa - Ubuntu
August 6th, 2008
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Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your computer. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized.
Download it here - http://picasa.google.com/linux/download.html
I downloaded the 32bit deb for Ubuntu and it works a treat 
Hmmm, Picasa. Can’t say I’ve tried the Linux version but I tried it on one of my Windows systems and it didn’t stay on there for long. Way to long scanning all the files and a noticeable performance hit too. Better to have some time of logical file storage so you know where your pictures are in the first place although when dealing with several versions of the same file it can get confusing. You know there was a time when I used to wax lyrical about free software and for someone with less demanding requirements or is prepared to hunt the internet for days on end when things go wrong or need that extra feature not supported without yet another piece of free software bolted on then that is fine. About the only free software I use now is stuff for the web, ie browser, plugins and ad/spyware protection
Right, back to Picasa, if you’re a tog, errr photographer that is, then personally I’d steer you towards Lightroom, or Aperture if you have a Mac. Hmmm, guess what? No Linux version!
Now tell me, what is more important, running an OS with flaws and the applications you need or running an OS with less flaws but then running multiple apps to do the same job but with normally even more flaws and no centralized or formal support for when things go wrong?
Give me Windows with all it’s flaws any time until Linux gets the commercial application support it is so sorely lacking.