Photo Management in Linux

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How do people manage their photo collections in Linux? I want to be able to organise and keep track of large numbers of photos. I also want to be able to process and edit Raw files easily.

I've tried using F-Spot. While it's similar to Lightroom in many ways, it lacks many of the features and feels very rough around the edges. It also doesn't have a concept of 'collections' that Lightroom does.

What would people recommend for processing RAW files? I know there's UFRaw, Photivo and Fotoxx and that the first two at least integrate with GIMP. However, I've never used them, so which do people prefer?
 
Ooh, that looks interesting. Thanks. May even work better on my slightly older PC.
 
As well as RawTherapee I know of the following: Darktable, digiKam, Bibble and LightZone. The last last two are closed source and commerical products.
 
Thanks trican, Darktable and digiKam look to be exactly what I'm after. I've also found Shotwell, which seems to be a good alternative. :)

Has anyone got any experience with any of them? If not, I'll just have to install them and try them all out..
 
hey lucyb - I suspect my usage might be similar to yours. In my case I was using Lightroom on Windows, but was really looking for a Linux alternative. I had great hope for DigiKam when I installed it, however when I started using it, I felt it lacked something, I think on the editing side, though hard to put my finger on exactly what I disliked about it. My colleague swears by it. I tried out Darktable then, which I was initially rather impressed with, some rather cool features in the plugins, but ultimately it just wasn't what I wanted!

Sorry thats probably not alot of help! My vote of those would be darktable though.
 
Personally I use dpp in windows for most of my picture work. However, when on holiday (2-3 weeks), then I will use F-spot for management. For multiple people/viewings, I use gallery.
I have been waiting for digikam 2 to come out, and today have compiled up B6 (and now b7 effectively, from git). It seems quite good, my interest in it is the automatic facial detection, then recognition. Detection seemed to work well, recognition was a bit buggy, but supposedly this was fixed in GIT, hence a second recompile.
 
Good thread, will follow it as I'm interested in the same thing
 
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