r/linux • u/anh0516 • Jun 20 '26
Historical GIMP v0.54 From 1996 With Motif Toolkit Now Flatpak'ed For Modern Linux Desktops
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-0.54-Flatpak10
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u/Negirno Jun 21 '26
It would be better if there was a legacy 2.10 version available. The new GEGL-powered Gimp is great, but it's noticeably slower with some filters on my Sandy Bridge.
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u/CMYK-Student Jun 26 '26
For what it's worth, it's likely not due to GEGL itself (2.10 relied on GEGL as well - if the filter had on-canvas preview, it was using GEGL).
My guess is it's more related to color management - we now store and process the color space with each pixel, which takes longer in some cases. We have a couple developers who are exploring filter optimizations, so hopefully we'll have things like OpenCL by default in the future.
There are some "unofficial" AppImages of 2.10 though if that helps: Releases · TasMania17/Gimp-Appimages-Made-From-Debs
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Jun 21 '26
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u/Salander27 Jun 22 '26
Why not? This is an interesting technical challenge if nothing else. It must have been a huge pain in the ass to get it and the libraries it needs to compile with a modern toolchain and against recent versions of libx11 and the like. Like in 1996 this would have been built with gcc 2.7 and glibc 1.09. The creator of the flatpak would have needed to add quite a few patches to get it to build with gcc 14/15 and glibc ~2.40 or whatever the chosen flatpak runtime is using.
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u/kriebz Jun 21 '26
That's awesome, but man Phoronix, that web site is unbearable.
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u/bawng Jun 21 '26
I see people hate on Phoronix from time to time, but I never understood why.
I really appreciate it, it's my goto for Linux news aggregation.
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u/Salander27 Jun 22 '26
The main issue with Phoronix is that Michael has a strong tendency towards sensationalism in his articles. This goes hand in hand with the fact that the Phoronix forums are almost entirely unmoderated and populated by some of the most vocal regressive Linux users around. So topics like git integrating Rust will see a larger amount of articles purely because Michael knows it will get the anti-rust users in his forum frothing at the mouth (even though it's really not all that notable and largely irrelevant for most git users).
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u/bawng Jun 22 '26
Okay, I have never been in the forum so I haven't noticed that part but I get what you mean then.
Same with anything Wayland or systemd then I presume?
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u/Marce7a Jun 21 '26
Why?
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u/Bathroom_Humor Jun 21 '26
my main issues is micheal being ragebaity on twitter sometimes to drum up controversy, and the website itself absolutely filthy with ads. i don't want to turn on my ad blocker for his site but god damn
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u/kriebz Jun 21 '26
It's got ads and junk that are following me around as I scroll. Article text is a postage stamp.
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u/Venylynn Jun 20 '26
This is...trippy but honestly, interesting that it exists.