F-Spot

F-Spot supports 16 common files types, including JPEG, GIF, TIFF, RAW, and others.

Import your photos from your hard drive, camera (including PTP type), or iPod.
Creating a CD of photos is just clicks away. Simply select the photos you wish to have on CD, and choose “Export to CD” from the main menu.

If you have a Flickr, 23, Picasa Web or SmugMug account, F-Spot can export photos to it, while optionally resizing your selection, and preserving tags and metadata.

You can also export to Gallery or O.r.i.g.i.n.a.l. powered websites, or a nicely themed static webpage.

Shotwell

Shotwell Features:
1. Import: Import photos from folders or from any digital camera supported by gPhoto.

2. Organize: Shotwell automatically groups photos taken at the same time. You can also use tags to organize your photo collection.

3. Edit: You can rotate, crop, reduce red-eye, and adjust the exposure, saturation, tint, and temperature of each photo.

4. Publish: Publish photos to Facebook, Flickr and Picasa Web Albums.

Rapid Photo Downloader

This one isn’t like the 2 others, as this application is a pure import application. So if you only plan to import photos/videos, then i would go for this application. No question about it.

Conclusion

If you need a great feature rich application, then F-spot is the one for you. Specially the version 0.71 that was recently released.

If you only need to grab a few photos and easy to upload them to facebook or flickr, then Shotwell is the one to use. It’s more slimmed, but remember it cant handle as much file types that f-spot do.

If you need a pure import application, then go for rapid-photo-downloader.

To install these ones in Foresight, open terminal and write:

sudo conary update f-spot

sudo conary update shotwell

sudo conary update rapid-photo-downloader

The version of the applications we got today is:
f-spot 0.7.1
rapid-photo-downloader 0.3.0
shotwell 0.6.1

To install it, open Terminal and write:

sudo conary update keepassx=@fl:2-devel

Thanks to Erik Southworth, used his recipe and updated only a few buildreqs.

For a better management user-defined titles and icons can be specified for each single entry. Furthermore the entries are sorted in groups, which are customizable as well. The integrated search function allows to search in a single group or the complete database. KeePassX offers a little utility for secure password generation. The password generator is very customizable, fast and easy to use. Especially someone who generates passwords frequently will appreciate this feature.

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So you got until midnight (american time) to get a free license. So hurry up.

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CodeWeavers’ mission is to make Linux and Mac OS X fully Windows compatible operating systems. We do this through the power of Wine, which powers all of our CrossOver products. The CrossOver products make it possible to run Windows programs on Mac OS X and Linux without needing a copy or license for Windows itself.
The program aims to integrate properly with GNOME and KDE so that applications will run seamlessly in the Linux environment.

CrossOver Linux is offered in two versions – Standard and Professional. CrossOver Linux Professional provides enhanced deployability and manageability features for corporate users. The Standard version allows a single user of a single machine. The Professional version allows multiple users.

Many users is using Gnome as their desktop envionment, so lets say that´s the one you want to use.

Now we need to think about using 32 or 64bit Linux system, you probably want to use 32bit for the first time to be sure everything works. But you also want 64bit available too.

Now we need to think about how your system should be updated/upgraded. Some Linux distributions have upgrades every 6/8 or 9 months, some using rolling updates and be upgraded as soon there is a new stable version of something.

As regular usage of the computer, you probably want to use latest stable versions of everything. Instead of getting few hundreds updates every 6-9 months. (can also be a pain if something breaks during the update) And maybe you don´t got a great internet speed, and want to save some bandwith too. Fedora, Ubuntu or Opensuse uses 6-8 months upgrades and even installs back the default applications you uninstalled. That is something i don´t want to happen in my dist i use.

And offcourse you want to be able to rollback the system if something should break. Like go back in time to a point where the computer worked just fine.

So this is want we want:

• Gnome
• 32 or 64bit system
• Rolling updates
• Rollback feature

So lets go to Distrowatch to see which Linux dists that have these features.

Foresight

Pardus (KDE as default, but can install gnome afterwards)

These two distros was the only i could find that have rolling updates and rollback feature.

But iv´e managed to find some distributions that have atleast Rolling updates, but no rollback feature.

Arch

PCLinuxos

Debian Testing

+ There is a few more distros that manage it, but either they don´t have Gnome or 64bit system as we also wanted.

So in overall, there was only 2 dists that i really wanted to use. But looks like Foresight has better documentation available and main language for the dist is English. For Pardus it is Turkish.

So thats why i use Foresight and probably many other users too. Its all under the hood where Foresight is so bloody great.