Date:  Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:32:51 -0300
From:  madodel at ptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: The GIMP 2.2.8 for OS/2


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From: Jonesy ( Posted on comp.os.os2.apps )

I saw this yesterday in gmane.comp.video.gimp.user over on the gmane
newsserver.  I can't see that Michael posts in comp.os.os2... anymore (if
ever.)  coo* has lost a lot of good participants -- probably due to the
low signal to pissing-contests ratio now found here.
 
|From: Michael Schumacher 
|Newsgroups: gmane.comp.video.gimp.devel,gmane.comp.video.gimp.user
|Subject: The GIMP 2.2.8 for OS/2
|
|Some of you might still remember - or maybe even use - the
|operating system of the future that was supposed to free the world
|from such things as DOS or Microsoft Windows 3.x.
|
|Despite being a stable and technologically advanced platform, it
|didn't succeed - partly because of its equally advanced hardware
|requirements (8 megs of RAM was much in those days), partly
|because one of its creators turned against it.
|
|Today, it's user base is mainly loclizced in certain parts of the
|finance and touristic commerces, and only a few boxes remained
|with individuals. And with IBM having announced "End of support"
|for 2006, the number of OS/2 systems will most likely go down even
|further.
|
|In this tragical situation, it is a good thing that some
|individuals keep up the spirit of Free Software and provide
|current applications for a platform that is now considered
|"exotic" at best. For a long time, GIMP 1.2.2 was the latest
|version of GIMP available for OS/2.
|
|Now, in once amazing quantum leap, this has changed - the current
|stable version of GIMP for OS/2 is 2.2.8 - yes, like the current
|stable version on the other platforms.
|
|Prebuilt binaries are available from
|http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=gimp&pushbutton=Search
|
|There are also the libs that are required (GTK+, Glib etc...) and
|a XFree86 package. Kudos to Frank Geissler and Ralph Hannes, for
|preparing the builds and posting to a german OS/2 newsgroup
|respecively, where the article caught my eye.
|
|Michael
 
 
Jonesy
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