Google Behind Photoshop’s New Linux Compatibility

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 19, 2008

“Google recently confirmed in a blog posting that it had paid
Codeweavers to help develop WINE to make Photoshop usable on the
well-regarded but still somewhat unpredictable software package,
which aims to replicate Windows libraries to enable popular Windows
applications run in a Linux environment.

“‘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,’ Google engineer and Wine release manager Dan
Kegel wrote…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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