El 21st de noviembre Peter Mattis anunció el lanzamiento GIMP en Usenet (acrónimo inicialmente de “General Image Manipulation Program” y posteriormenre cambiado a “GNU Image Manipulation Program”):

From: Peter Mattis
Subject: ANNOUNCE: The GIMP
Date: 1995-11-21
Message-ID: <48s543$r7b@agate.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.windows.x.apps

The GIMP: the General Image Manipulation Program
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The GIMP is designed to provide an intuitive graphical interface to a
variety of image editing operations. Here is a list of the GIMP’s
major features:

Image viewing
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* Supports 8, 15, 16 and 24 bit color.
* Ordered and Floyd-Steinberg dithering for 8 bit displays.
* View images as rgb color, grayscale or indexed color.
* Simultaneously edit multiple images.
* Zoom and pan in real-time.
* GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and XPM support.

Image editing
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* Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, bezier
and intelligent.
* Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip.
* Painting tools including bucket, brush, airbrush, clone, convolve,
blend and text.
* Effects filters (such as blur, edge detect).
* Channel & color operations (such as add, composite, decompose).
* Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and
new effect filters.
* Multiple undo/redo.

Requirements
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* The operating system must support shared memory.
* X11 R5 or R6\. (Actually, it may work on R4, but we have not had a
chance to test it).
* The X-server must support the X shared memory extension. (The
X-server does not actually need to support shared memory so this is
only a temporary situation until we integrate the configure
information with the source code).
* Motif 1.2 or above.

The GIMP has been tested (and developed) on the following operating
systems: Linux 1.2.13, Solaris 2.4, HPUX 9.05, SGI IRIX.

Currently, the biggest restriction to running the GIMP is the Motif
requirement. We will release a statically linked binary for several
systems soon (including Linux).

URLs
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http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~gimp
ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/gimp
mailto:gimp@soda.csua.berkeley.edu

Brought to you by
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Spencer Kimball (spencer@soda.csua.berkeley.edu)
Peter Mattis (petm@soda.csua.berkeley.edu)

NOTE
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This software is currently a beta release. This means that we haven’t
implemented all of the features we think are required for a full,
unqualified release. There are undoubtedly bugs we haven’t found yet
just waiting to surface given the right conditions. If you run across
one of these, please send mail to gimp@soda.csua.berkeley.edu with
precise details on how it can be reliably reproduced.

GIMP es una aplicación de retoque fotográfico (similar al archiconocido Adobe Photoshop y una alternativa gratuita (open source) y libre (free software) a este.

Personalmente vengo utilizando GIMP desde 2004 aproximadamente al ser esta en la fecha en la cual comencé a migrar mis equipos a sistemas operativos tipo GNU/Linux (Lignux), habiendo incluso impartido dos acciones formativas sobre esta herramienta, el primero cuando participé en el plan de formación de los dinamizadores de Guadalinfo y el segundo para un curso de formación programada por las empresas (bonificada o de demanda).

Larga vida a GIMP https://www.gimp.org/