Gimp 2.2.0 Released

I've been using it for all kinds of madness at work and home -- it's simply one of the best image maniuplation programs you can find. The fact that it's free is icing on the cake.

Well... there are other proggies which excel in other ways, but it does exceptionally well as an all-rounder. And for many people, dropping AUD$1200 for a graphics program (twice the cost of a cheap-but-good machine) is not a viable option.

If you're using 2.0 I strongly recommend an update to 2.2 for all of the shiny new conveniences - too numerous to list - and if you don't like the new file-open dialog then either use something else and paste it into an Open/Location box or write your own dialog. That multitude of conveniences make an inordinate difference to the joy factor.

PS, the .src.rpms from Cooker (you need a new Gtk+ too) rebuild cleanly on Mandrake 10.0; I'll put the binaries up on http://mandrake.cyberknights.com.au/10.1/ sometime later today for the terminally lazy.

Whoops, s/10.0/10.1/ - the RPM requires a later glibc than 10.0 possesses.