Ubuntu Photo Manager Experiment (Ubuntu Productivity) [LWN.net]

Ubuntu Productivity reviews several free and commercial photo editing applications for Linux. "I have a passion for photography and have become heavily entrenched in the tools available on Mac OS X, such as Aperture and Photoshop. This experiment focuses mainly on Aperture and what tools, if any, exist for Ubuntu to replace my Aperture workflow with something cross-platform and open-source that I can use on Mac OS X and Ubuntu."

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And Wine?

Posted Jul 11, 2008 10:35 UTC (Fri) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]

Since non-free programs are included in the review, he should also have tested Adobe Photoshop
and competing Windows programs under Wine or Crossover Office.

And Wine?

Posted Jul 11, 2008 11:47 UTC (Fri) by Zenith (subscriber, #24899) [Link]

As several commenters have also noted, he also missed out on several other (and free) programs, such as RawStudio

Alternatives that the author missed

Posted Jul 11, 2008 14:22 UTC (Fri) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]

Isn't that one of the main problems of free OSes?  That people wanting to migrate from the
mainstream OS often need one or two particular pieces of software which aren't ported to the
free OSes?  And that they aren't aware of the free software (one or a combination of packages)
which might fulfil their needs after all?  After all, good software existing is not enough if
the people who need it don't know about it.

Alternatives that the author missed

Posted Jul 11, 2008 22:05 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

How is it different from non-free OSes? Do they provide any application search facility that free software doesn't have? I, for one, find it much easier to evaluate free software, as I won't end up for a piece of programmatic crap that would "expire" after 30 days or annoy me with warnings every time I run it.

Alternatives that the author missed

Posted Jul 14, 2008 7:29 UTC (Mon) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]

I quite agree if you are at the stage of looking for an application.  But if you are already
using a proprietary OS and an application which does what you want it to, it can be a barrier
to switching, even if you would like to for other reasons.

Ubuntu Photo Manager Experiment (Ubuntu Productivity)

Posted Jul 11, 2008 13:46 UTC (Fri) by basic (guest, #12705) [Link]

you don't read much on the net I guess. I'd say it was informative for those of us who haven't
looked at photo related software on linux in a while, even with the "inaccurate, incomplete
and incongruent"