All major open source image viewers/editors support JPEG 2000. For GIMP there exists a plugin (which will be included by default in GIMP 2.8).
I hope that Ubuntu will also consider adding MNG support to Firefox, which was removed by Mozilla in favour of their ill-fated APNG standard.
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Does other OS software like GIMP and co support JPEG 2000 too? Who needs JPEG 2000?
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Ubuntu's Firefox May Gain JPEG 2000 Support
Phoronix: Ubuntu's Firefox May Gain JPEG 2000 Support
JPEG 2000, the image file format that has been around for nearly a decade and offers better compression performance and greater flexibility in the code-stream that can allow for higher quality photographs compared to a traditional JPEG, may get a boost on the Linux desktop. JPEG 2000 hasn't seen much adoption in large part because of the lack of web browsers that natively support this JP2 ISO standard, including Firefox...
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