[vox] [Semi-OT] New Tux Paint released!

[Darth Borehd]

Just wanted to say that my kids, nieces, and nephews have all loved
TuxPaint their entire lives.  Same with all their friends and classmates I
have shown it to you.
Thank you and keep up the good work.

On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 12:40 AM Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net> wrote:

>
> My friends (including Mark Kim, another LUGOD alum) and I
> recently cut & released a new version of Tux Paint, the
> open source drawing program for kids, which was born from
> a conversation (with Stephen Matthew Helms) after a LUGOD
> meeting, way back in 2002!
>
> The new version doesn't add much in the way of functionality,
> but the codebase was cleaned up a bit, the docs were restructured
> a little, a color-picker tool was added, some new localizations
> were done, and most importantly (and thanks to lots of hard work
> and testing my Mark!), it's now able to run on the latest versions
> of macOS.  (Something changed in OS X 10.11, which caused the
> previous version of Tux Paint, from 2014, to break.  A similar
> thing happened when OS X 10.10 came out, breaking things in
> the 2009 version of Tux Paint!)
>
> It's available as source code (obviously), Mac OS X / OS X / macOS
> 10.7 through 10.13 (and hopefully it won't break when 10.14 hits!),
> and as RPMs for RHEL 6.x and 7, both 64- and 32-bit.
>
> A semi-official (in that it's still managed separately from the
> main code-base) version is available for Android (via F-Droid).
> A totally un-official iOS port also exists in the Apple App Store.
>
> And it's packaged in Debian, Ubuntu, and Slackware Linuxes, and
> will no doubt update soon.  I belive NetBSD and FreeBSD packages
> will probably get updates, too!
>
> Learn all about it from:  http://www.tuxpaint.org/
>
> Thanks for listening!
>
> --
> -bill!
> Sent from my computer
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