I use Kubuntu, but keep up with Mandriva and even install it now and again. It is good to know what other distros are up to. :)
Roy On 23 May 2010 19:14, Bill Oliver <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for the info. I'm a Mandriva person myself, so don't keep up > with a lot of the debian family. > > billo > > On Sun, 23 May 2010, Roy wrote: > >> Lucid Lynx is the code name for 10.04 of all of the *buntus. The next >> one will be Maverick Meerak, 10.10 in Ocotber. See a pattern? >> >> The GIMP is no longer part of the default installation of Ubuntu. >> Shame on them. :) But it is still in the repos. So install it from >> Software Centre, Synaptic or from the commandline. The version in the >> repos is 2.6x but there is a PPA for the latest version 2.7 which has >> dockable windows so that it is all in one window. Here is the link for >> those interested. >> >> >> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/12047/install-gimp-2.7.1-on-lucid-lynx-using-ppa/ >> >> Roy >> >> On 23 May 2010 14:31, Bill Oliver <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> I'm not familiar with LUCID -- is that the more recent version of Ubuntu? >>> In any case there are a *bunch* of free/open source (I assume you want >>> only >>> free stuff) image editing programs for linux, and most can be downloaded >>> and >>> installed from their home pages if not from a repository associated with >>> your particular distro. >>> >>> It depends on how basic and how niched your needs are. A simple list is >>> at >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_raster_graphics_editors . >>> Note >>> that *most* of the ones that are listed under freeware are either linux >>> or >>> have linux ports. In addition to the ones listed here, you might also >>> look >>> at ImageJ from the National Institutes of Health in the USA >>> (http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/) >>> >>> >>> billo >>> >>> On Sun, 23 May 2010, Vyshakh wrote: >>> >>>> I could not find GIMP on lucid. Is it really removed? Now, lucid does >>>> not have a basic image editor. >>>> >>>> Please anyone get me a link to download GIMP for LUCID... >>>> >>>> (i want to download a precompiled DEB Package from internet cafe, And >>>> install it at my gone. >>>> >>>> Anyone have idea that why GIMP has removed? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >>>> Group. >>>> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >>>> To unsubscribe, send email to >>>> [email protected] >>>> For more options, visit our group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >>> Group. >>> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> For more options, visit our group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >> Group. >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] >> For more options, visit our group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
