A short post.

As mentioned few weeks ago, I started using twitter and invited you guys to add me as a friend. All I can say is that I am having a blast, and made some great friends in the process. As a person who lives on up to the minute information and subscribes to 100s of RSS feeds, I find twitter to be a great resource for information. For instance this week alone, I found out about Gimp 2.6 and Ubuntu Beta release (by the way, Ubuntu beta is out just now) even before any of my feed picked it up. So I think twitter can be very helpful in this way; of course there are down sides of people rambling about what coffee they are drinking more often than you would like to know. :)

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As a long time Photoshop junkie and Gimp fan, this week has been a joyous overload. Gimp 2.6 released today and Photoshop CS4 has been announced (they need some time to hype before release). And again the all important question is being asked by some overenthusiastic Gimp lover whether we have finally come close to having a free, open-source Photoshop alternative.

The short answer is no. For most average image editing needs, Gimp is more than enough, but for developers and professional designers Photoshop is more than just a powerful, insanely over-priced, image editor; Photoshop is a brand name which is synonymous to “image editing”. But Gimp is the closest thing to having a free (legal) photoshop.

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How many of you have never customized/tweaked your favorite linux distro since your first installation? I suspect very few, if any. One of the main appeal of Linux (and open source softwares) is the freedom of customization and the choice to do virtually anything you want. You are only limited by your imagination and understanding of the system. So today we will share some tips and information to make your linux system…

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Today I got an e-mail from the author of Nathive, which is a fairly new linux image editor. I encourage people to try it out and give feedback to the author to help him improve it.

Quoting his e-mail:

“Nathive is a libre software image editor, focusing on usability, logic and provide a smooth learning curve for everyone. The project runs over Gnome desktop and everyone can collaborate in it with code, translations or ideas. It’s a made from scratch, code with C programming language and GTK+, simple and lightweight, it’s easy to install and use. The project concept was born in 2007 and is in early development stage.”

Thanks Markos!