Gimp Update

www.gimp.org From the release:

Version 2.2.14 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program is a bug-fix release in the stable 2.2 series. Please see the NEWS file for a detailed list of changes. The source code is available from ftp.gimp.org. Binary packages for the various supported platforms should become available soon.

I'll be waiting for it to hit the Ubuntu repo's, but if you don't mind building from source, have at it!

ATI Driver Update

AMD has posted an update to their proprietary Linux driver for ATI graphics cards. Here is the announcement. From the notes:

Resolved Issues

The following section provide a brief description of resolved issues with the latest version of the AMD Catalyst™ Linux Graphics Driver software suite. These include:

• The screen no longer turns black if the X-Server is terminated from the text console. This condition was known to occur only on certain laptop confgiurations. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26829.

This is very good news for those of us with these particular laptop configurations. Note: I have not yet installed this driver, as I just now saw the announcement, so I'd love to hear from anyone who's already installed it.

New Gimp Manual

The Gimp developers announced the release of a new users manual today. From the announcement:

After three months of hard work we are proud to announce a new release of the user manual for GIMP 2.2.

• New content (incl. spelling and grammar fixes) for German, French, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish and Korean
• The PDF version of the manual is now generated using dblatex
• Lots of bug fixes

. They recommend you wait until it's been prepackaged for your distribution before installing it on your system, but you can always check it out online at http://docs.gimp.org.

Gimp Portable

PortableApps.com announced yesterday the release of their portable version of the Gimp 2.2.13. From the announcement:

This new release updates the included GIMP to 2.2.13, adds Vista compatibility, correctly cleans up GTK's bookmark and thumbnail files and features a greatly improved startup speed thanks to the new launcher's plugin processing. And, it's now packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite.

If you don't have a portable computer, or if your only computer is someone elses, having PortableApps is the next best thing, seriously. Go check it out!

Inkscape .deb Package

For those of you using some flavor of Debian linux (Ubuntu) and do not favor building your own packages, ubuntuforums.org user gummybearchen
has conveniently packaged Inkscape for us. Check it out here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org....

That is all.

GIMP 2.3 .deb

If you are a Debian or Ubuntu user, Ubuntu Forums user soc has created a .deb file for the latest version of the GIMP. Check it out here: www.ubuntuforums.org. If you're unfamiliar, a .deb file is an automatic installer for Debian based systems which makes installing applications a very simple process. No dependency hell. If you're brave, you can download and build the package from source. I'm going to continue using v2.2 here just because it is the stable version. As soon as 2.4 is announced, I'll make the switch for tutorials.

Thanks soc!

p.s. Here's the changelog for 2.3