1. Computing & Technology

Graphics Software for Alternate Operating Systems

Image editing and graphics software programs for alternative operating systems such as Linux, Unix, BeOS, OS/2, and even DOS.
  1. Graphic Software for Linux

XnView - Free Multi-Platform Viewer

XnView is a fast and free image viewer and converter with support for a staggering number of file formats, operating systems, and languages. XnView can import over 400 graphics formats, and writes about 50.

Picasa Free Digital Photo Software for Windows and Linux

Picasa is a free photo organizer for Windows and Linux. Picasa is excellent for beginners and casual digital shooters who want to find all their pictures, sort them into albums, do quick edits, and share with friends and family.

BePDF (BeOS)

View PDF files in BeOS.

Dia

Dia is a gtk+ based diagram creation program released under the GPL license, designed to be much like the commercial Windows program 'Visio'.

Iconblender (BeOS)

Overlay icons onto each other to create other icons. Really, it's more useful than it sounds if you need to create icons.

Image Grinder (BeOS)

Perform hundreds of operations on multiple images with this handy app. Set your parameters and image batch and let the program do its thing.

Impos/2 (OS/2)

Powerful image processing program, and the only one with built-in support for a large number of current scanners. Reviewed in OS/2 E-zine by Chris Wenham.

JPhotoBrush Pro (Win/Linux/Solaris/OS2/Mac/IRIX)

JPhotoBrush Pro is an award-winning, multi-platform image editor written in Java. It offers tools for editing, enhancing, and retouching photos in a small, affordable package. US$25.

Match Fonts for OS/2

Large collection of commercial fonts. Get a font with your own handprint!

NeoPaint for DOS

"Artists studio" allows business and home users to touch up photos and create images with painting and drawing tools, selection tools, special effects, scanner and digital camera support, and more. Can also run under DOS in OS/2.

Pixel (Multi-platform)

"Pixel is a RGB, CMYK and HDR image editing, photo retouching and manipulating program available for many operating systems formerly known as Pixel32. It is available for Windows, Linux, Linspire, MacOSX, BeOS, Zeta, QNX, MorphOS, FreeBSD, eComStation, OS/2, SkyOS and even old plain DOS, for both x86 and PowerPC architectures."

PMJpeg (OS/2)

PMJPEG is an easy to use shareware image viewer with quick JPEG preview, image processing, conversion, and slideshow capabilities for OS/2 2.x and Warp.

PMView Pro (OS/2)

Image viewer, converter, editor with customizable scripts for format conversion; slideshow, capture and filters. Major advantages include smooth scrolling on just about any image size or resolution, efficient on system resources, customizable conversion scripts and shortcut keys.

Skencil (Unix)

A vector drawing program for Unix.

The Awesome Resizer (BeOS)

Quickly resize images with this, err, awesome application.

The GIMP (Win/Mac/Linux/Unix)

Freeware image editor for the Unix environment with a complete set of features and capabilities.

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