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orcgetcael Tux Paint is an Open Source (GPL) drawing and painting program designed for young children. It includes a cartoon Tux the Linux penguin who encourages the user and states various facts. A collection of over 250 (as of November 2005) stamps are available as a free add-on. It includes pre-drawn as well as photographic imagery covering a variety of topics (from food to outer space to zoo animals) which can easily be placed in pictures.

Tux Paint is written and developed in C and uses a number of LGPL libraries (e.g., SDL). There are native Win32, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and BeOS ports available, and packages for numerous Linux distributions.

Tux Paint was originally written by Bill Kendrick, with many developers contributing code, porting and packing improvements, translations and testing. As of November 2005, Tux Paint has been translated to over 55 languages, and is included in Debian, TheOpenCD, and elsewhere.

Check out http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/gallery/ for examples of real-world usage of Tux Paint by children and adults around the world, and http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/screenshots/ for screenshots describing the various features.

See also

• applications

External links

• Tux Paint homepage (www.newbreedsoftware.com)
• Tux Paint project at SourceForge.net (www.sourceforge.net)