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Using Flatpak to Run a 1996 Version of the GIMP on Modern Linux

Using Flatpak to Run a 1996 Version of the GIMP on Modern Linux
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Although there’s probably no good reason to want to run image editing software from 1996 other than for nostalgia’s sake, if you ever wanted to run the GIMP version 0.54 from back when Windows 98 was still called Windows 97, you can do so now from the comfort of a modern-day Linux desktop. What enables this is a Flatpak version of a beta release , assembled by [balooii] for everyone’s enjoyment. It wasn’t a simple matter of compiling the old software’s code and packaging it up, with the reposito

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