Download The GIMP 2.0 Pre-Release

The folks behind The GIMP released the first version 2.0 pre-release yesterday. The GNU Image Manipulation Program is commonly thought of as the Photoshop program for Linux and is used to take screenshots, edit images, and create icons. to make† The release notes state the following:

Here you find pre-releases of GIMP version 2.0. Not everything is in its final state but we are close to 2.0, the plug-in API has settled and you are encouraged to try this software. Your feedback can help to make the 2.0 release a success.

GIMP-1.3/GIMP-2.0 installs side-by-side with GIMP-1.2 so there’s no need to uninstall GIMP-1.2 (but sooner or later you will not be using it any longer…).[break]Download the pre-release in two different flavors:

The GIMP 2.0 pre-release Bzip2
The GIMP 2.0 Pre-Release Tarball