{"id":282074,"date":"2026-06-26T00:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/you-too-can-download-the-30-year-old-gimp-build-that-was-used-to-make-tux\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T01:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:00:48","slug":"you-too-can-download-the-30-year-old-gimp-build-that-was-used-to-make-tux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/you-too-can-download-the-30-year-old-gimp-build-that-was-used-to-make-tux\/","title":{"rendered":"You, too, can download the 30-year-old GIMP build that was used to make Tux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/you-too-can-download-the-30-year-old-gimp-build-that-was-used-to-make-tux\/\">You, too, can download the 30-year-old GIMP build that was used to make Tux<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/you-too-can-download-the-30-year-old-gimp-build-that-was-used-to-make-tux\/\">https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/you-too-can-download-the-30-year-old-gimp-build-that-was-used-to-make-tux\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-26 00:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.xda-developers.com\">www.xda-developers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title icon i-list\">Summary<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        Tux just turned 30 and remains the definitive face of Linux.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        GIMP 0.54\u2014the 1996 build used to create Tux\u2014is now available as a Flatpak with bundled dependencies.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        Install from GitLab or run &#8216;flatpak install &#8211;user gimp-0.54.1-8.flatpak&#8217; to draw like it&#8217;s 1996.\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tux the Penguin is the face of Linux. There&#8217;s no debate, really; he&#8217;s not just a popular icon, he&#8217;s not just a cool mascot, he&#8217;s the face of Linux. He has been around for a long time now; in fact, he just celebrated his 30th birthday last month. But not many people know how Tux came to be.<\/p>\n<p>Well, if you wanted to make a digital pilgrimage to the birthplace of Tux, someone has just made it possible in Flatpak form. The three-decade-old GIMP 0.54 has reappeared on the internet, and now you can draw like it&#8217;s 1996.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"gimp-0-54-re-emerges-on-linux-as-a-modern-day-flatpak\">\n                        GIMP 0.54 re-emerges on Linux as a modern-day Flatpak<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"you-can-download-it-right-now\">\n            You can download it right now<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>        Credit:\u00a0balooii<\/p>\n<p>As spotted by Linuxiac, GNOME developer balooii has released a Flatpak version of GIMP 0.54. Because it&#8217;s a Flatpak, all the dependencies are bundled within the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/you-too-can-download-the-30-year-old-gimp-build-that-was-used-to-make-tux\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You, too, can download the 30-year-old GIMP build that was used to make Tux https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/you-too-can-download-the-30-year-old-gimp-build-that-was-used-to-make-tux\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":282078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.xdaimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/linux-tux-featured.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-282074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282079,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282074\/revisions\/282079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}