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. "About 200 patches were committed to winehq, and as of wine-0.9.54, Photoshop CS2 is quite usable," Kegel noted in a separate post.

Linux.conf.au in Melbourne last month, focusing its Summer of Code student training program. "We have paid for a whole bunch of improvements to a whole bunch of stuff," program manager Leslie Hawthorn said. "We haven't actually talked about it, but we recently paid CodeWeavers to do some work on Wine so you can run Photoshop CS2 and 3".

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