Ok, two things today. First is that I've actually finally almost finished designing the Slashdot T-Shirts. They are basically the logo you see next to this story, and will available soon. If you are definately going to be buying a shirt, I'd like you to email BEP so we can figure out how many of these buggers to print. We're open to suggestions (mugs, hats, stickers etc) so feel free to express interest in these sorts of items as well.

The second note is a bit trickier- it pertains to credit on articles on Slashdot. A lot of egos have been bruised, and I just want to explain things so nobody else gets angry. Hit the link below to read more.

Ed Boraas writes "GTK+ version 1.0 has been officially released. All interested parties should check out the website for more info. Can Gimp 1.0 be far off?"

Vincent Janelle wrote in to warn everyone that Gimp 0.99.25 has hit the net. 12 hours after I downloaded and compiled 0.99.24. Ever have one of those days? With GTK teetering perilously on One Point Oh, Gimp is going to hit 1.0 soon too, so find and patch those bugs people! Update half hour later and 26 hit the wire. Hope nobody bothered with 25.

Vincent Janelle wrote in to tell us that GTK 0.99.10 out, and about the same time we discover that Gimp 0.99.24 is out as well. One point oh is just around the corner now, I can sense it. After the feature freeze is over can I have paths please? *grin*

Jordan Mendelson wrote in to give us a link to the new Mozilla logo competition. It's unofficial, but I'm sure many of you Gimp heads will still enjoy it. The other thing is that an anonymous read sent in a link to The Mozilla Bug Tracker which is currently empty. We all know better than that, so when you find 'em, post 'em.

George Russell. posted his predictions for the future to c.o.l.a. and sent a copy of it here as well. Hit the link below to read his predictions- I think he's pretty much right on with most of his guesses.

Miguel de Icaza writes "Red Hat labs has setup a daily process that takes the latest versions of GNOME, GIMP and Gtk out from the GNOME cvs server and makes rpms for people to try gnome without having to manually install all of the required packages. " You can read about this over at RHAD labs.

Get ready to rumble as the tidal wave continues. First off, Andrew Mobbs sent us an important list of must-read RFCs. RFC2321, RFC2322, RFC2323, RFC2324, RFC2325. He also reminds everyone that ds.internic.net is no longer the canonical RFC archive. Luis Villa sent us Important news on the Java API. Gernot asked us to check This directory on ftp.gimp.org. Lastly, james sent us this one and Raj Dutt sent us this one.

Ted Stein writes "Although GIMP advocates will likely attach the freeware image manipulation program to it, Adobe has not disclosed what it believes to be the cause of its first quarter losses (other than weak demand). Their revenues dropped from $226.5 million to $197.8 million." Read more at this wired article. Update:Relax People. The gimp thing was meant to be funny. And watch the language.

Mishari Muqbil wrote in to tell us that we now have version 0.99.23 of The Gimp to deal with. Cross your fingers and hope that this is the last break before 1.0. Download it, and hammer the heck out of it and stomp those last bugs guys!

tile wrote in to tell us that GTK 0.99.8 is up, and when I went to check it out, I found that Gimp 0.99.22 is out as well. Both programs are balancing perlilously on the edge of falling into the chasm of One Point Oh. Let's download these buggers, and find every last bug and make sure that 1.01 is a long ways off.

Daily Grounds has an awesome writeup on The Gimp, Free Software, Linux and the like. The intro is a wonderful summary of the movement. Talks about Net-fu and Emacs and the like. Even IBM sites pay attention to software that is free. Creds to GIMP appears in IBM's Daily Grounds.

delaney wrote in to tell us about this wired article about The Gimp. With the countdown on, it's nice to see that PR before one point oh. If there are any adobe employees reading, I'm curious what their take is.

Not only is GTK.org up and running, but GTK 0.99.7 is out as well- apparently this one compiles again *grin*. On the bad side, this is all happening instead of 1.0. Hopefully this won't delay The Gimp's 1.0 release that we're all anxiously counting down for. Thanks to tile for taking a minute to let us know.

With only 8 days left until the One Point Oh release of the Gimp, we now have 0.99.20 to contend with. Don't forget to snag the new GTK 0.99.5 as well. Chris Black was the first of several to report this one.

I haven't been keeping up on Gimp news lately apparently because Garrett wrote in to tell us that Gimp News is running a caption that says 10 Days Until 1.0! Very cool. Also worth noting is WilberWorks has some content on their web page now.

Aspirin The Fox writes "As of July '98 a major training company, Learning Tree International, will be offering a course entitled 'Introduction to Linux'. Another cool sign of Linux's increasing mainstreamness. " You can read more here.

Zach "Gimp News" Beane writes "Network World has a columnist who wrote an interesting column about creating an alternative to Microsoft by investing effort in Linux. The web version of the article is at this link.

Stefan Ottosson wrote in to tell us that the latest Gimp Contest is over and we have a winner, viktor-0 is the new gzilla spinner, and dietmar-3 was the runner up. Voting should start soon for the gnome logo- there are some really sharp ones in there.

Joseph Fisk wrote in with news to my ears: the latest version of The Gimp is out and about. Snag it from the same place as always.