It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X.
It's very likely your Linux distribution already comes with a GIMP package. It is a preferred method of installing GIMP, as the distribution maintainers take care of all the dependencies and bug fix updates.
Ubuntu, Debian
Ubuntu or Debian users can simply run
apt-get install gimp
to get the latest stable release of GIMP.
openSUSE
SUSE users can install GIMP by running
yast -i gimp
or zypper in gimp
depending on the distribution version.
Fedora
Similarly to the above, Fedora users can install the latest stable GIMP by running
yum install gimp
Mandriva
Mandriva Linux users can install the latest stable GIMP by running
urpmi gimp
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