In Linux there are many applications that do this and much more. A great feature of Linux is the availability of software libraries which are smaller programs that other programs can call on to do specific tasks, such as resizing images, without having to "reinvent the wheel" each time. The freedom to use others' work and modify or incorporate it into another program leads to great innovations.
In Linux there are numerous free photo applications.
The one that I use frequently is gthumb. It has these features:
- Tag photos
- Batch renaming of files
- Resizing and rotating photos
- Share with flickr or facebook
- Produce catalogues of photos
- Slide show and full screen
Gthumb is not included in Ubuntu 10.10 and the default photo manager is shotwell. I've played a bit with shotwell and it is a great looking application. It does most of what gthumb does but it is a bit harder to copy photos to other locations. I found that the uploading to facebook feature isn't working correctly either- the first time I tried, it just would not connect to facebook, and the second time, it would not read existing albums to allow the photos to be added to them.
I tried to re-install gthumb but found there was a dependency conflict in the repositories I used. I removed one repository which has the latest cutting edge releases and was able to install it successfully.
I will look at shotwell again in the future, but for now gthumb is my preferred application.
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