fl0at writes "Looks like TheGimp.Com has opened. This is a companion site to the "Artists' Guide to the Gimp". The site has tutorials, tips-and-tricks and a "Featured artist of the Month" section. Enjoy. "

President John F. Kennedy wrote in to say that Propaganda 5 is out. Another outstanding series of background images. RPoet wrote in to say that The Gimp had a 1.1.3 developer release come out. Bill the Cat sent us another strange eBay Auction Item. Les VanBrunt sent me a picture from LWCE that should be destroyed. netweasel sent us a link to Jesus Action Figures! Collect All 12 Apostles! Jesus! With Super Healing Grip! I bet Boba Fett would win. Bowie J. Poag wrote in to say that CopyLeft now has Themes.org shirts for sale. unitron sent us a link to Phone Spell which converts ph#s to words. I found some cute ones for mine- wish my area code didn't have a 1 in it. Lastly, another reminder to go to the User Account page and edit your preferences. Slashdot article filtering should be working. More coming tomorrow, assuming this stuff works as advertised.

Jeremy Dinsel writes "Web Review covers Open Source Software as an option for web development. They include several articles including topics such as the Apache, the GIMP and Linux. "

An anonymous reader pointed us to this linux today bit that points to Varkon which has GPLd their Linux CAD software. We definitely need some CAD round these parts. Drawing wireframes in the Gimp doesn't work nearly as well as you'd think.

Drizzt sent us a link to a little blurb over at ZDNet that talks about Adobe Trying to Take over Corel. Interesting little bits there basically saying that Corel is trying to stall things. What would Adobe do with Corel? Would they continue to support Corel Apps on Linux? What of the Netwinder? Is Adobe afraid of The Gimp?

Adrian Ziemkowski sent us a link to a BeNews article where you can read an interview with Richard Hess (the man in charge of the BeZilla project). He discusses porting GTK and the Gimp to BeOs. Several interesting comments in this one. Its worth reading.

Joy of joys! Debian is going to try to get a new logo. They are doing this in conjunction with the latest Gimp Contest. My cheesy entry is on my gimp page *grin*. Anyway, there are more details on the pages linked above- and the winner gets a Debian CDs for their platform of choice (no fair asking for for something that runs on your C64)

Couple of web sites worth mentioning: gman wrote in to plug LinuxHardware.net, a new "driverbase" that aims to make it easily to find drivers. Gman says it already has over 250 submissions. Need more help? Sure we all do, well Patrick wrote in to plug his new site, dotfiles.com. Guess what it's for? The first 2 tries don't count. And Some fun bits to keep you entertained for the evening, Evelyn Mitchell sent us a link where you can read the tummy.com 2.2 pool results and find how who predicted when 2.2 would be released. A similiar pool is upcoming for 2.4 CaseyB sent us an entertaining rumor from BeDope that Be will reincarnate the BeBox- building it out of Legos. Don't I wish. And finally, Hans sent us another funny one ls.themes.org where you can theme ls. I can't decide if its a parody or not- but it made my day.

Zachary Kessin writes "There is a new Script-Fu Webpage , Covers details of programing The Gimp in Script-Fu. " Not really much there yet, but it hopefully will be cool.

Stig Hackvän apparently really wanted this story since he emailed it to me twice, and he also submitted it the right way. Anyway, he submitted a nice interview with S&P on LinuxWorld if you're interested in reading it.

Greg Roelofs writes "Graphics developers (yo, GIMP folks!) will be mildly amused to know that the PNG Development Group has released version 1.1 of the Portable Network Graphics specification. It includes a significantly rewritten section on gamma correction, a couple of new chunks for color correction, and some little stuff relating to suggested palettes, alpha-channel processing, etc. A complete pseudo-context-diff is available. Note also that ISO/IEC standardization is underway, and the PNG home page has even been spiffed up a tiny bit. Whoa. "

Anthony Ball writes "Michael Hammel's new book "The Artist's Guide to the GIMP" is now available at SSC. " How long before we can see that on the shelves right next to the Photoshop books?

Sven Neumann writes "A first release of the developers-series 1.1.x has appeared on ftp.gimp.org and should soon be available on a mirror near you. What a nice xmas present. " Just a reminder that the Gimp has adopted a version naming convention similiar to the Linux Kernel, so since this is an odd numbered release, it is for developers and risk takers, and not graphic designers with deadlines. And FWIW I'm not planning on announcing devel gimp releases unless they have significant changes in them in the future. There are other sites that already do a fantastic job announcing software.

Vincent Renardias writes "Tor Lillqvist has recently tried to port The Gimp on Win32; and not only it works great under Windows 95/98/NT, but it also runs under Linux (Screenshot!) thanks to the Wine emulator.
Now who will dare do say there are no usefull applications running under Wine? ;) " That is amusing.

Chris Frost writes "After the worry sprouted by an earlier article, Sven Neumann has posted what's going on with respect to Gimp 1.1 To cut right to the chase, there's also a list of new features " The list is huge, my favorites include GimpPerl, XInput support (finally I'll have a reason to dig my pen out of the drawer), the Guillotine plugin (useful if you make web pages) and a ton of excellent UI enhancements

ggoebel writes "Daniel Egger is forking The Gimp. Why? Read his editorial. The short version, is that he would prefer a more open development model, and a more structured development path. " So folks, what do you think?

slana is desperately seeking assistance with the following issue: "Help!!! After three years I am almost MS free, yet each season my Cristmas and Business Card making needs have easily been met by "MS Pub." Hours and days with WP8, GIMP, SANE, SOffice 5.0 have met with limited and convoluted results. I am at what one might call 'an advanced novice at wits end.' Set me free from this seasonal 'Off the Wagon' syndrome!" Can anyone give tips on how to do these things using some of of the software listed? Is there better free software out there for this purpose?

A new book and some Slashdot e-mail makes it clear why people like me have to learn how to use Linux and help spread its message beyond the Rarefied Geek Enclave. And also just what a nightmare that's going to be.

After a long night in the darkroom working on photography projects, nothing will make me happier than cleaning out the submissions box. So hit the link below and read the huge flood of stuff that has been accumulating while I've been trying to vanquish my end-of-the-semester projects. There is a ton of cool stuff in there worth checking out.

Greg Briggs asks this burning question "My question for Slashdot is... What can I do? I don't know any programing languages, (I'm learning) but would like to help support Open Source Software. I am good with Photoshop and The GIMP, but have not been able to get in contact with anyone that could use my services. For some time I have been thinking of starting a database that could link people with projects that can use their services. It would be a "OSS help search" of sorts. Well, if anyone at Slashdot has any ideas for ways that I (and other slashdot readers) can help post them on the site. Also if you know of anyone that could spare some space and bandwidth I would be happy to run a "OSS Help Search" site." There are plenty of ways for non-coders to support Open Source Software, but I figure you all knew all the answers better than I did. And does that "OSS Help Search" sound like a really good idea to you all? I know I can could it, since a lot of people like submitting questions that would be better off on such a site...