Whats the difference between CinePaint and Film Gimp?
CinePaint was known unofficially by many names: Gimp16, Film Gimp and Hollywood Gimp. The name was officially changed to CinePaint in March 2003, which may end the confusion. The first release of CinePaint was on the Windows platform because that happened to be released at the time of the name change. That it is Film Gimp 0.16 on some platforms and CinePaint 0.16 for Windows has no special significance beyond timing. Future versions on all platforms will be called CinePaint. • What’s are the differences between CinePaint on the various platforms? To users, CinePaint should seem about the same regardless of platform. CinePaint uses a common codebase to build on all platforms. For many years Linux, Irix, and Alpha were the only supported platforms. When Robin Rowe became the project leader a goal he set was to support all operating systems. That was accomplished in less than a year. Because Mac OS X is based upon FreeBSD which is similar to Linux, it was fairly easy to port. The Mac port
