Graphics Update

* Gimp 2.6 has been released. The changes are mostly under-the-hood, (ie. moving form old GIMP core to shiny new GEGL Core), however there are a few UI changes. Release Notes: www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html. Waiting desperately for a PPA as the screenies look like an SDI (single document interface) is onboard!!

EDIT: A ppa is available courtesy of Christoph Korn !! See https://launchpad.net/~c-korn/+archive




* Nathive, a new GTK image editor's alpha was just released, something funny is going on on the downloads page, however when it is all fixed, the website to go to is http://nathive.org

Happy Birthday GNU !

Mr. Stephen Fry introduces you to free software, and reminds you of a very special birthday.

Click on the image to play the video!

New Entry for the Browser Wars!

Google have just announced they are going to release a new (open source) internet browser tomorrow, called Google Chrome. It is based on both Mozilla Firefox and Webkit and incorporates Google Gears into the formula (well what did you expect :-] ).

The developers have presented the ideas behind it in a unique and effective way, a comic strip. You can read it here http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome.

When I first read the announcment, I was a bit sceptical, here comes another browser that will die of in the first few weeks, but having read the core ideas in the comic book, I am really looking forward to it.

It seems as though the engineers behind Chrome have sat down and really had a think about the good elements and shortcomings of current browsers, fixed the latter and then brought them all together.

There are very few details out at the moment, however I have read that the Windows version comes out tomorrow with other OS releases not specified. I do hope that Chrome comes to Linux (and not like Picassa did with wine) as I think it could really shake up our current thinking of modern internet browsing.