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06.24.09

Potential Future Replacement for F-Spot Enters Ubuntu

Posted in FOSS, GNU/Linux, Ubuntu at 3:07 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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Summary: Solang enters Karmic Koala repositories

AWARENESS of the questions surrounding Mono has increased considerably and The Nixed Report publishes a detailed essay on the subject. There are also those insisting that it’s “just a tool,” but the point worth making is that this tool fits well in the repositories, without the ramifications of being passed directly from the distributor on the ISOs. And speaking of repositories, Solang has just been added to Ubuntu’s, so hopefully as it matures it can replace F-Spot as the default image manager.

Ironic announcement from Luca Falavigna to announce that Solang is now included in Ubuntu Karmic Koala repositories.

It is another small step in the right direction. Ubuntu pondered replacing even the GIMP with F-Spot. █

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3 Comments

  1. Needs Sunlight said,

    June 24, 2009 at 9:40 am

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    F-Spot has always been poor even not counting the mono problem and not adding any functionality over that of Digikam. However, Solang being new brings some fresh attention to the area.

    http://www.stefanoforenza.com/solang-is-a-new-photo-manager/

    One of the areas is that newer people are being introdcued to C++ and finding that it is excellent for developing cross-platform applications.

    lalala Reply:
    June 24th, 2009 at 10:00 am

    A link to forenza, who just happens to be one of Roy’s shills and a regular in the IRC channel.

  2. _Hicham_ said,

    July 6, 2009 at 7:52 pm

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    To install solang on Fedora 11, please visit the following page :

    http://hicham.iblogger.org/FedoraRepo

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