Heard at the Ubuntu Developer Summit: Goodbye GIMP, hello ... nothing &ndash and why every Linux user should consider gThumb over F-Spot

Posted by Steven_Rosenber on Nov 19, 2009 9:37 PM EDT
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The OMG!Ubuntu blog reports on the decision, however preliminary, at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Dallas to remove the GIMP image editor from the 10.04 Lucid LTS release of the wildly popular Linux distribution. Those assembled seem to think that GIMP is not used enough and is not consumery enough. And that the F-Spot photo manager can do basic photo editing and is much better for the average user. Oh, do I have bones — plural — to pick over this one.

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