graphics library

Useful and Highly Dynamic: GIMP 2.6 has Arrived

Linux Today  Fri, 10/03/2008 - 15:02

Linux Pro: "Among others is to offer developers integration with the Generic Graphics Library (GEGL) to allow non-destructive editing of HDR and RAW graphics that are rendered in up to 32-bit color depth per channel."


 

RCairo 1.8.0

Topix - Linux  Sun, 09/28/2008 - 13:20

RCairo is an open source project that provides Ruby bindings for cairo which is a 2D graphics library.


 

Mesa 7.1 Released, X.Org 7.4 Coming![Finally]

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Wed, 08/27/2008 - 21:21

Mesa 7.1 has been in development for a number of months already with the first release candidate having come out in May.

However, this update to the open-source 3D graphics library has been delaying the release of X.Org 7.4 as it's a dependency for building the X Server.

With the release of Mesa 7.1, X.Org 7.4 has finally been given a green light!


 

Mesa 7.1 Release Candidate 4

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Sat, 08/16/2008 - 20:56

Mesa 7.1 has been in development for a number of months already with the first release candidate having come out in May.

However, this update to the open-source 3D graphics library has been delaying the release of X.Org 7.4 as it's a dependency for building the X Server.

We wish we could tell you Mesa 7.1 was shipping today, but instead we have ano


 

Cluster Visualization Framework Released

Topix - Unix  Fri, 07/11/2008 - 15:30

Researchers at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology has released for download a visualization framework called the Cross-Platform Cluster Graphics Library for ...


 

First Looks at The Gimp 2.5

Slashdot: Linux  Mon, 04/14/2008 - 08:27

desmondhaynes writes "The GIMP team announced today the first release from the 2.5 development series. It is true that this version is unstable, but a little bird told me to give it a try and see what's it capable of.

First of all, let me tell you that its interface is quite redesigned and I think that some users will have problems adjusting with it, but that's just my two cents.


 

cairo release 1.6.0 now available

LWN.net  Thu, 04/10/2008 - 17:44

Version 1.6.0 of cairo has been announced. "The cairo community is quite pleased to announce the 1.6.0 release of the cairo graphics library.

This is a major update to cairo, with new features and enhanced functionality which maintains compatibility for applications written using cairo 1.4, 1.2, or 1.0.

We recommend that anybody using a previous version of cairo upgrade to cairo 1.6.0.