Re: Good News: Ubuntu Linux 22.04 LTS supports Canon CR3 RAW!!
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RLight wrote:
This is FANTASTIC news!
Question, exiv2, available in any other major Linux distro's by default?
Generally, exiv2 library is free software and makes it into all major distributions, but when its CR3 support was introduced some time ago, the developers were in doubt whether they perhaps infringe some intellectual property by that and made including the feature optional when compiling the source code of the library, ending up that most distributions compiled exiv2 in default configuration and so did not include CR3 support. Currently, the doubts are cleared and newest versions of exiv2 are compiled with CR3 support by default, meaning that future Linux distributions should support CR3 out-of-the-box.
IN Ubuntu 22.04 the maintainer of the exiv2 Debian/Ubuntu package has switched the option to include CR3. Therefore this version of Ubuntu supports CR3.
Note also that the fact whether a Linux distribution supports CR3 (or any other new RAW format) does usually not influence image editing software which comes in so-called "sandboxed" packages, like Snap or Flatpak, as this software comes with its own libraries, especially also with its own exiv2. So you can be lucky that via Snap or Flatpak you get CR3 support also into older distributions but also catch a software without CR3 support on a generally CR3-supporting distribution. But usually you should get into the former situation as the idea of Snap and Flatpak is to always get the newest application software also after the release of your distribution.
Granted Ubuntu is the leading Linux distro of choice, other than MacOS.
Question #2... RawTherapee, do you recommended it for RAW conversion in Ubu? I noted there is a lack of major third party paid support. Does LR or others support Linux-64-bit yet?
I did not hear about Adobe software being available for Linux. I hope Snap and/or Flatpak will help Adobe to make their software available to us in the future.
About whether DarkTable, RawTherapee, or DigiKam is the best RAW editor I cannot say much, as I do not wear these "I shoot RAW" T-shirts, I actually shoot JPEG (with RAW as backup but used it only very rarely), but as free software developer and especially co-founder and the leader of the OpenPrinting project I am also interacting with the developer and user communities.
For that matter, is there a webpage these days that shows major third party software support? Things like Tax software are gotchas these days, still.
For software which is not included in your distribution you should watch out at the App Stores for Snap and Flatpak. Here software gets posted independently of any Linux distribution and you can install it on (nearly) any Linux distribution. Both packaging systems have security concepts similar to what you have for apps on Smartphones (this was probably the inspiration for developing these systems in the first place). I know about the inner workings at least of Snap, as I have [snapped several printing-related pieces of software](https://snapcraft.io/search?q=OpenPrinting), especially CUPS and also all printer drivers which are available as free software (in 4 Printer Applications). I have also participated in the development of Snap, for a smooth and secure printing integration.
Till