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: Giving up the GIMP is a sign of Ubuntu's mainstream maturity
Giving up the GIMP is a sign of Ubuntu's mainstream maturity
Nov 25, 2009, 17 :03 UTC (24 Talkback[s]) (7184 reads)
(Other stories by Ryan Paul)

"Canonical hosted its biannual Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) last week in Dallas, Texas. I was one of many open source software developers who attended the event and participated in the collaborative process of planning Ubuntu 10.04, the next version of the popular Linux distribution.

"An important part of the 10.04 roadmap that emerged during UDS is a tentative plan to remove the GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Tool, from the default Ubuntu installation. Although this decision is viewed by some as controversial, the reasoning behind it is valid. The removal of a niche professional graphics editing tool reflects Ubuntu's growing maturity as a mainstream platform for regular users."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
The GIMP is no more difficult to learn a ...   GIMP   
grep
Nov 25, 2009, 18:28:03  
Removing the GIMP is questionable, but I ...   mono no   
James E LaBarre
Nov 25, 2009, 18:58:51  
Moving GIMP out of the default install o ...   not in my opinion   
John Helms
Nov 25, 2009, 19:00:33  
> The GIMP is no more difficult to learn ...   Re: GIMP   
Chris
Nov 25, 2009, 19:06:14  
Digikam is the answer; for the typical J ...   Photography   
Spanky
Nov 25, 2009, 20:37:46  
God forbid someone should actually have ...   Re: Re: GIMP   
grep
Nov 25, 2009, 22:41:09  
Agreed. Digikam is a fantastic applicati ...   Re: Photography   
grep
Nov 25, 2009, 22:43:09  
....and kissed Gnome goodbye. Though the ...   Already moved to Kubuntu...   
Phil
Nov 25, 2009, 23:50:07  
>Ubuntu is not loosing GIMP, it is simpl ...   Re: Re: Re: GIMP   
Chris
Nov 26, 2009, 01:16:12  
As someone who uses the GIMP for image c ...   GIMP replacement for Image Creation   
Stomfi
Nov 26, 2009, 01:42:25  
No. You don't get it. "Just like Win ...   "Just like Windows"   
Spanky
Nov 26, 2009, 02:34:35  
> The GIMP is no more difficult to learn ...   Re: GIMP   
Rainer Weikusat
Nov 26, 2009, 12:43:12  
Yes choice is good. Custom is good. yet, ...   Choice   
Spanky
Nov 26, 2009, 15:54:49  
[...].> Bottom line is, if "granny" (poo ...   Re: Choice   
Rainer Weikusat
Nov 26, 2009, 17:13:23  
Please note that it was only removed fro ...   Only removed from the default installation   
Charles Hixson
Nov 26, 2009, 18:43:02  
From the article:"a tentative plan to re ...   False alarm!   
Rufus Polson
Nov 26, 2009, 19:33:26  
> People use Windows because they're ...   Re: Re: Re: Re: GIMP   
Yonah
Nov 27, 2009, 06:45:49  
> Most (a majority that does not include ...   Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: GIMP (   
Elitist
Nov 27, 2009, 13:30:48  
Mononono, ooohhh how I love IT !!!They s ...   TGF Mononono   
RudieD
Nov 27, 2009, 17:06:02  
And the original reasons given were (if ...   Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: GIMP (   
Bernard Swiss
Nov 27, 2009, 22:02:54  
"stupid""no use trying to educate those ...   Re: Re: Choice   
Spanky
Nov 28, 2009, 21:41:52  
> Are you part of the problem or are you ...   Part of the Problem (was Re: Re: Re: Choice)   
blackhole
Nov 29, 2009, 05:37:45  
> "stupid"> "no use trying to educate th ...   Re: Re: Re: Choice   
Rainer Weikusat
Nov 29, 2009, 20:35:34  
I'd be more impressed if Cannonical ...   Actually, sign of immaturity   
Bernard Swiss
Nov 30, 2009, 00:36:02  
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