News - 2007

Tux Paint for OLPC XO-1 - December 29, 2007
Development is underway to improve Tux Paint on the One Laptop per Child "XO-1" tablet computer, and the latest version has been built and posted. See the new XO-1 download page at the Tux Paint website.

Tux Paint 0.9.18 released - November 23, 2007
Tux Paint 0.9.18 has been released, and is available for Windows Vista, 2000 and XP, Fedora CORE Linux 2-6 and Fedora Linux 7-9, PowerPC-based Apple Mac OS X, and as source-code. See the press release.

Tux Paint 0.9.18 test builds available - November 12, 2007
A test version of the upcoming Tux Paint 0.9.18 is available for Windows and Fedora CORE Linux 2 thru Fedora Linux 7. Please try it out and let us know how it works for you!

Tux Paint Plugin API talk in San Francisco area - November 1, 2007
Bill Kendrick, lead developer of Tux Paint, will be talking about the new 'Magic' tool plug-in API coming in version 0.9.18.

Tux Paint 0.9.18rc1 source - October 22, 2007
Release Candidate 1 of the next version of Tux Paint, version 0.9.18, has been released for testing purposes. Currently, only the source-code is available. It can be downloaded from our FTP site. Please report any issues to Bill Kendrick, lead developer of Tux Paint.

Pop Star alpha available - September 30, 2007
In June 2006 we started a small puzzle game project called 'Pop Star.' We've finally decided to release an alpha version, for people to comment on. (Artists welcome, too!)

Mad Bomber on Virgin America Airlines - August 26, 2007
Mad Bomber was one of first the games included in 'Red', the touchscreen-and-controller-based in-flight entertainment system found in Virgin America Airlines planes.

Entombed! for GP2X and new Source - July 4, 2007
Our little game Entombed! has been build for the GP2X handheld game system. In response to the GP2X's need for 320x240 support, we've also released a new source version that runs at a smaller size. (We hope the GP2X community will port this version, too, for improved performance.)

Tux Paint 0.9.17 now available - July 2, 2007
Tux Paint 0.9.17 has been released, along with an updated graphical configuration tool and an expanded stamp artwork collection. Major improvements include support for SVG-based stamps, and Japanese and Korean text entry. For more, see the press release!

Tux Paint presentation in Davis, California - May 8, 2007
Bill Kendrick, lead developer of Tux Paint, will be discussing the latest improvements to the program at the Linux Users' Group of Davis, California, June 18th.

Tux Paint in SchoolArts magazine - April 18, 2007
Tux Paint is mentioned in an article on Open Source software in the May/June issue of SchoolArts magazine.

Tux Paint in Macworld Magazine and TUAW - March 19, 2007
Tux Paint is mentioned promimently in the April issue of Macworld Magazine, and reviewed in a post today on The Unofficial Apple Weblog.

Another Tux Paint presentation in San Francisco - February 17, 2007
Bill Kendrick, lead author of Tux Paint, will be speaking at the Bay Area Linux Users Group in San Francisco on Tuesday, February 20th.

Defendguin ported to Nintendo DS - February 8, 2007
Defendguin has been ported to the Nintendo DS handheld game system.

Tux Paint 0.9.16 CDROM available - January 2, 2007
The latest version of Tux Paint is now available on CDROM from CafePress for USD $6.99. It includes versions for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Happy New Year!