I love F-Spot. I moved off Picasa when I migrated to Linux last year because the Linux version was bad so went through several photo-management apps quickly before learning that F-Spot’s 3rd-party support (Flickr, etc) was immensely powerful. I saw this review at FOSSwire and thought I’d share:
Nowadays, people have a lot of media. Music, videos and photos. One application for Linux for managing a library of photos is F-Spot. I thought I would take it for a spin, under Fedora 8 and GNOME.
F-Spot ships with almost all modern distributions that use GNOME, so it’s pretty likely you won’t have to do anything to get it installed at all, just have a look under Applications > Graphics or similar. If not, install the f-spot package.
On opening the application for the first time, you’ll be asked to import some photos. I’ve got a collection of around 1400 snaps, so I chose to import the folder containing them into F-Spot.
Possibly the best video editing platforms for Linux, Cinelerra, is being overhauled by its own community:
The community surrounding Cinelerra, one of the premier non-linear video editors for Linux, has decided to strike off in its own direction and rewrite Cinelerra under a new codebase.
Cinelerra has its roots in Broadcast 2000, a rewrite of Broadcast 2.1 in the late 1990s by its owner Heroine Virtual Ltd. (HV), a mysterious group that has stated its anonymity is necessary to keep the division between personal and professional projects. The Broadcast 2000 name was discontinued in September 2001, and Cinelerra 1.0.0 appeared in August 2002 using the same codebase.