OpenOSX Ships Gimp 1.2.5 Accelerated for G5
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.–(OPENOSX-COM)–August 21st, 2003– OpenOSX
today announced the immediate availability of their Gimp 1.2.5 product, now
accelerated for the Apple Power Macintosh G5 processor that is an
easy-to-use solution for quickly installing and utilizing the popular, open
source “The GIMP” software, offering users sophisticated photo manipulation
and graphic tools. The new edition brings: updated software, additional
features, enhanced stability and has been compiled to utilize G5 processor
capabilities.
This is the first version of the OpenOSX Gimp product built
specifically for the Power Macintosh G5, offering a new level of
performance, and it will still operate on older Mac OS X 10.2.x systems.
The product features a customizable single-click installer that will
install the long list of requisite software libraries required to run The
Gimp on Mac OS X effortlessly, along with complete documentation (in both
PDF and HTML formats), tutorials, over 100 fonts, brushes, patterns, 600
megabytes of Plug-Ins and a mirror of the official Gimp website.
The OpenOSX Gimp 1.2.4 product is available immediately for us$30
on CD-ROM with download-only delivery available for $25 and upgrades from
previous versions of the product are us$15 on CD-ROM and $10 for download.
OpenOSX additionally has complementary, specially priced, O’Reilly book
bundles and 6-month hassle-free CD-subscriptions available. Limited
installation support and documentation is included with all purchases.
Visit the OpenOSX web site for more details at: (http://OpenOSX.com/gimp/).
OpenOSX is a company dedicated to serving, and expanding, the
Macintosh community. Founded on the premise that many computer users are
intimidated by the UNIX command-line, OpenOSX committed itself to one
mission- bringing popular Unix software to both the “Unix-challenged” and
the seasoned, Mac inclined system administrator in a friendly, Mac
environment.
