At the Ubuntu Developer Summit, which took place last week, it was announced that the next release of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, version 10.04, will no longer carry the GIMP in its default installation. More here

So, what other tool will provide the ability to perform the type of casual photo editing Neumann speaks of? This role will be fulfilled by F-Spot, the photo management tool. This one already has several quite basic photo editing tools built-in, such as red-eye reduction and cropping.