Heads Up

By chance I ran across this free RAW converter that I had never heard of before. I'm locked-in to LR so it doesn't interest me personally, but maybe somebody looking for freeeware might want to give it a test drive.

http://www.scarablabs.​com/scarab-darkroom

If we're pimping free RAW processors then I humbly submit Blue Marine. It's an Open Source Lightroom/Aperture clone.
I've not tried it but I've heard good things.
http://bluemarine.tida​lwave.it/home.html

Looks quite like LR.
Too bad it's win only for now, Intel only later on...

I'd be interested in results.

Edit: AFAIK, Blue Marine still didn't get out of the "organiser only" stage. It's was mentioned about a year ago by Bobster, and before that by David, but it didn't have a Raw converter back then. I don't think it has come much further yet.

From the blueMarine web site:

blueMarine wasn't born with the idea of delivering a product. Originally it was just a technologic demonstrator, thus lacking quality assurance. Only in 2006 it got a critical mass of feaures and the author definitely decided to retarget it. At the moment the QA is insufficient and the product is not yet suitable for production use. Don't download it if you think to use it - blueMarine at the moment can be only evaluated.