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Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12. It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.

Features:

• A number of useful drawing tools are made available. (See Drawing Tools, below.)
• The drawing canvas is a fixed size, so the user doesn’t need to worry about “pixels” or “inches” when making a new picture.
• The entire program fits on a screen as small as 640×480, and can be displayed full-screen, to hide the computer’s underlying “desktop” interface. (It defaults to 800×600 mode, but can run at larger sizes and in portrait or landscape mode, as well.)
• Loading and saving of images is done using thumbnails, so no knowledge of the underlying operating system’s filesystem structure is needed. Even filenames are unnecessary.
• A cartoon version of Tux, the Linux penguin, appears at the bottom to give tips, hints and information.
• Stamps, starters and brushes are stored using popular open formats (PNG, SVG, Ogg Vorbis, etc.) allowing parents and teachers to create their own content for use at home or in the classroom — even using completely free tools.
• The “Tux Paint Config.” program allows parents, teachers, and school technicians to alter Tux Paint’s behaviour using a simple, easy-to-use graphical interface. (It’s separate from Tux Paint, to prevent children from changing things.)

and much more . . .

Platform

• Windows: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista
• Mac OS X: Requires Mac OS X, version 10.3 or later
• Linux: (No special OS requirements)

Download Location:

For Windows: Tuxpaint windows-zip

For Mac OS X: Tux Paint & Tux Paint Config

For Linux:

• Tux Paint for Fedora 8
• Tux Paint for Fedora 7
• Tux Paint for Fedora 6

Website: http://www.tuxpaint.org