Every wondered what GIMP looked like in 1996, before GTK? Well, now you can. Developer balooii has packaged GIMP 0.54 as a Flatpak that runs on modern 64-bit Linux desktops with Wayland. It’s apparently the earliest version of the app with the source code still available to build. It’s not an official GIMP effort, but an enthusiast project hosted on the GNOME GitLab. It’s also something of a work-in-progress package of an ancient work-in-progress beta release, with the maintainer promising more plugins and tutorials in time. Before we get to the install bit, there is a bit of trivia-laden history […]
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