The GIMP project reports that GNOME contributor "balooii" has worked to package GIMP 0.54.1—released in 1996—as a Flatpak that will build and run on modern 64-bit Linux systems. This is a Motif-based version, and the same version that was used by Larry Ewing to create Tux.
While not likely to be useful for serious graphics work today, it should be interesting for users who would like to see what a 30-year-old version of GIMP was capable of.
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Posted Jun 22, 2026 21:43 UTC (Mon) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]
We had to use lesstif because motif was non-free (it is free now).
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