[Design-team] [OT] GIMP becoming too profi and thus will be, excluded from Ubuntu distro

Nicu Buculei nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro
Wed Dec 2 07:35:15 UTC 2009


On 12/01/2009 03:14 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
>
>     From: Máirín Duffy
>     On a trend that seems neverending, Fedora did it first with far less
>     fanfare from the media.
>
> It is about the trade-off of Gimp with Mono packages like F-Spot on
> Ubuntu Live CD.

That was the line of reasoning used in Fedora too... however we ended 
with the ISO of the Desktop Spin weighting around 655MB, with ~45MB of 
unused space, which was enough not only to leave GIMP in, but also 
include Inkscape and other useful things.

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