Giving up the GIMP is a sign of Ubuntu’s mainstream maturity

“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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